SAS is #2 on FORTUNE's Best Places to Work List Perusing the top ten names in the lists of 100 Best Companies To Work For, published annually by FORTUNE magazine, I'm always struck by the fact that they tend to share no visible attributes. They vary in their industries, geography,
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When the word ‘fragile’ comes to mind, the average person may think about things like glass vases, artwork, flowers, or maybe even emotions. But fragility takes on a whole new meaning when looked at on a broader scale—across natural, ecological, financial, economic, political and social systems. I would like to
Just in case you missed my earlier post about cloud fragility, we have this from the New York Times on October 22, 2012:
I asked a Nuclear Engineering Professor friend of mine, after the Fukushima power plant disaster of March 2011, whether that incident would have a positive or a negative impact on his industry. His response was that it would have a short-term positive impact as a result of publicity generating a
Among the volumes of information about SAS we were showered with during our new SAS employee orientation, two seemingly insignificant tidbits stuck in my mind. SAS has dedicated about 12 acres of its campus grounds to a state-of-the-art solar farm. SAS prefers employment to outsourcing. Thus, the people we would
Goha, an Egyptian male folk character, has been often used to convey wise nuggets in the fashion of Aesop's Fables, with a satirical twist. So Goha was once found, at his wits end, looking for his donkey. A passer-by notices his befuddlement and the following dialogue ensues. - "Goha, what's
Money. The enabler of all economic activity. The root of all evil. Whatever soubriquet you attribute to it, its nature and substance are becoming the topic of a vigorous debate as of late. A topic that was thought to have been fully settled over half a century ago and relegated