....just try to be good. Man, I love this quote. It goes against so much we are taught. Find your niche, be unique: compete, compete, compete.This often results in impractical innovation over simple, …
Why Norbert Wiener Would Want You to Blog
One book that I keep coming back to is Tyler Cowen's Average is Over, which predicts the effects of the concentration of information technology at the hands of a few.While the information age …
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Excel Tip: Mail Merge to PowerPoint via Word Outline
A reader asked how to convert an Excel workbook into a PowerPoint presentation where the first column was a title page and the next two columns were the subtitles. This sounded to me like a Mail …
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Excel Tip: Find and Conditionally Format Greatest Range Difference
This is a template that I used today in working through a statistics problem. In the video we will cover-finding the greatest and smallest values in a range with MAX and MIN-a simple IF …
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What Grade Do I Need to Get an ….? Find out with Excel Goal Seek!
It's the age-old question of students everywhere. "What grade do I need on this to get a .... in the class?Excel has a great tool called Goal Seek that will help you find out. …
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Russ Ackoff, Modern Management, And You The Analyst
Russell Ackoff (1919-2009)One of my (many) writing assignments this semester is to write a biosketch of a prominent information systems theorist. I am finding a lot to respect in Russ Ackoff, my …
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