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  • 10 Fun Microsoft Facts You Might Not Know

         In this article from Mashable.com, you will discover       What experimental musician created the Windows start-up sound? How do they celebrate anniversaries? If Microsoft have a “pest” problem? Check-out the original article on Mashable

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  • How To Stop the Blame Game ?

    Good reading on Harvard Business Review reagring the Blame Game. Key take-out of this reading. Playing the blame game never works. A deep set of research shows that People who blame others for their mistakes lose status, learn less, and perform worse relative to those who own up to their mistakes. The same applies for organizations.

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  • How to be in the PRESENT, right NOW ? (Book)

    Great Book from Spencer Johnson :  THE PRESENT. Take a look a the following video The key outcome for me is that there are THREE WAYS TO USE YOUR PRESENT MOMENTS BE IN THE PRESENT WHEN YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL Focus On What Is Right Now. Use Your Purpose To Respond To

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  • What if twitter community were 100 people ? (infographic)

    Source : http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/category/statistics/

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  • Which companies are the most SOCIAL ?

    Social profile research and discovery company Flowtown has published some findings about : how employees use social media which companies have the most “social” employees. Each company’s ranking is determined by its employees’ overall social media activity, including the average number of connections across various networks.

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  • How to reach the Next Level ?

    Simon Vetter has recommended me a great book. The Next Level What Insiders Know About Executive Success By Scott Eblin, www.eblingroup.com Much as Good to Great described what separates top companies from the rest, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success shows executives what separates leadership success from failure at the next level.

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  • How do we work and live at Microsoft ?

    At Microsoft, we welcomed 60 nearly young graduates from different Belgian Universities. The idea was to share full experience on how we work and live and how technology enables innovation and flexibility. I had the opportunity to make a presentation with Luc Van de Velde (DPE Lead) on the current Consumer (R)evolution. Take a look

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  • Who are the top 15 World’s Tech Billionaire ?

    Who are the top 15 of the list from Forbes List of World’s Tech Billionaire ? Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires. Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim. Facebook  founder Mark Zuckerberg, has rejoined, at #212 with an estimated

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  • Are you growing or NOT ? Check out the Nielsen Figures across Europe.

    A good reading in Nielsen Wire regarding Nominal Growth in Europe. This is based on FMCG products tracked by Nielsen, in Europe. As you can see on the chart here-below,  Nominal growth has remained stable around 3% for four consecutive quarters. The fourth quarter of 2009 has shown nominal growth at 2.9%, once again outperforming

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  • Are you in the CLOUD ?

    Today, we are all using services which are in the cloud. But what does it mean ? Steve Ballmer discussed, last week with students from Washington Universities,  what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing that will change the way people and businesses use technology. To know more on this, just click HERE

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  • Unemployment around the world

    Virtually all of the world’s advanced economies have suffered some effects from the recession. Though unemployment is a problem all over the world, some countries have suffered a worse rate of unemployment than others. Canada and the United States have both experienced massive job losses during the recession. The United States now has an unemployment

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