A few weeks back on my way to work at around 8:30 in the morning, I walked by three or four AT&T stores with long lines filled with eager souls waiting for the doors to open. Each one of these bright eyed and bushy tailed, hope-filled, patrons of tech had their heads buried in an iPhone 3 (or god forbid an original iPhone!). I am assuming once the imaginary gates of heaven opened the teaming …

Isolation can be nice. Sometimes it’s great to just get away from the world, put your feet up and throw your cares out the window. Then again it’s hard to find nooks and crannies in this modern world that aren’t infested with ways to communicate. But there is a flip side to all of this. The more we rely on this same technology to feel connected, the more we can in fact become isolated, …

It’s easy to blame Google and PowerPoint for distracting us and making us employ bullet points. But, as Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard, argues in last week’s New York Times, we shouldn’t get worried about technologies’ power of distraction. Perhaps, he says, we should be thankful since “technologies are the only things that will keep us smart.”
Pinker states that new forms of media usually meet initial skepticism. The printing press, radio, television, comic …

1. Breaking bad news to the boss or a colleague can be hard. Thankfully (and with humor) Nicole De Flanco gives us 5 easy steps to follow.
2. A great (and easy to follow) guide to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and how it relates to management.
3. Leaders have to control their ego in order to lead effectively. Here are 10 ‘red flag’ warning signs that narcissism might be looming.
4. Social media recruiting: looking for work and networking …

1. What will we say about 21st century leadership? What defines it? The Harvard Business Review argues that it’ll come down to values.
2. Bob Sutton smells something fishy about the BP apology. Leaders need to know how to apologize.
3. 5 ways to survive an impossible job (when hide and seek is not an option).
4. A list (and funny analysis) of the 2010 office pet peeves.
5. Here’s a fresh and compelling look at leadership and management …

The Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a new undertaking that has the potential to change how academic research is conducted.
Oxford University Press, best known in literary circles as the publisher of the beloved and, in some cases, reviled Oxford English Dictionary, launched the OBO to “help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time.”
Oxford Press’  new online bibliography, compiled by panels of scholarly experts, offers short Wikipedia-esque introductions coupled with comprehensive bibliographies.
The …