A manager was once interviewed by a prestigious productivity magazine about his management of his department.
“How many people work in your office?”
to which he replied. “…about half”.

Suffer the scourge of the office parasite?
The Office Parasite comes in many forms.  Some of you work with them, some of you are managed by them.  Parasites usually exist [...]

Any of you old enough to remember the Cabbage Patch Doll Frenzy? No?
Ok how about the first iPhone rollout
(Canadians bought phones for $1000 or more even without data plans!)
Try to imagine using your iPhone without connectivity and forking money for the privilege (scary)
The newest “Gotta have it” is Google Wave.  You can get a sense [...]

I recently ran into this story (from ABC news) about two girls from Brisbane, Australia who got lost in a storm. Rather then using their cell phones to call the police, the two chose to change their status on their Facebook page. I certainly don’t think that we can generalize and say that most [...]