It has long been known that cooperation is one of the best ways for multiple people to accomplish their goals, combining resources and manpower in order to achieve a final result that is better for everyone than any one company could ever have achieved on their own. This can then be tied into conventional game theory, which utilizes strategies of constantly cheating your partners, constantly being truthful with your partners and then treating the next partner as you were treated in the previous exchange. That third strategy, known as the Tit for Tat strategy, always seems to come out on top in terms of the associative trials that are run.
What makes Tit for Tat so successful is that while it attempts to be as cooperative as possible, it also attempts to take into account the fact that other people will be immoral in their dealings with you. If everyone acts morally however, the Tit for Tat strategy simply becomes a long string of moral dealings in which case it simply becomes the truthful strategy. If you needed a good reason to be moral in all of your business dealings, then consider the Tit for Tat strategy in that ideal setting. There is no better illustration as to what being good can do not only for your company, but for the business world as a whole.
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Posted in Blogging, Business News, Career by Damien |
It is perhaps a bit incongruous to think of Facebook as being something that is behind the times, but when you stop to consider things more closely, it actually makes quite a bit of sense. Facebook is in a sector of the economy that changes faster than anything else ever conceived and because of that the stuff that Facebook has as part of their website has the potential to become obsolete at a much faster pace than Microsoft or any of the other first wave computer companies.
The top dog at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said exactly that when speaking at a conference about digital technology. He said that Facebook would be creating a whole new look in order to easier facilitate the steadily growing amount of content they have on their website and he even went so far as to say that the boxes look that Facebook is so famous for would be one of the first casualties in the quest to create a website that is much better at collating, cataloguing and filtering through all of the massive amounts of content that the website now contains.
So what does this mean for the average Facebook user? Probably nothing anytime soon, but it could mean that your surfing experience will get a lot more interesting when the new design has been completed.
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Posted in Career, Jobs and Careers by Damien |
Today, going green and eco-friendly has been the talk of the town and while recession for most people is obviously setting in, a potential tweak in the career path that they are choosing may not hurt at all.
If you want to be assured of an alternative source of income, check out these 5 hot green collar jobs from Yahoo. You never know you may fit into one of them and help yourself and the environment as well.
- Wind/Turbine Technician
- Auto Retrofitters
- Sustainable Architects
- Energy Systems Manager
- Environmental Engineer
(Source) Yahoo Hot Jobs
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Women have been seen as better than men in some positions by most people and apparently the secret here is working on that niche. It is not a discrimination thing. The point is, women are really good at some duties and responsibilities and companies and the only thing left is to identify which these jobs are.
Most career-oriented women know this all too well. While they tend to believe that they are better than men, they are partially right. It depends on the line of work that they are pursuing and with this list of promising career opportunities, female aspirants can more or less assess if they can look forward to a rewarding career ahead.
- Personal Financial Advisor
- Psychologist/ Therapist
- Entrepreneur
- Education Administrator
- Human Resources Manager
Take a look at your surroundings or the places you may visit. You will see where women really stand out the most as far as career success is concerned.
(Source) Yahoo Education
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While the Democratic Party candidates are busy knocking the stuffing out of each other in their nomination race, John McCain is running through a number of different actions designed to make him look more open and honest, insofar as that is possible for a politician of any stripe. As part of this, his wife has released her tax returns from 2006, which indicate an overall income of $6 million in that calendar year.
Most of the income that contributed to the $6 million figure came in from investments in real estate and family trust funds, which in turn resulted in her paying a total of $1.7 million in taxes across that whole income amount. It was rather easy to track this in terms of Cindy McCain’s taxes because of the fact that both husband and wife have signed a prenuptial agreement that prevents them from combining income information in the way that many other couples would normally do.
Ultimately, there were parts of her income that came from wages, but they amounted to a very small $300,000 amount when compared with the overall income that she reported. These types of wages have been taxed at 35% ever since the Bush tax cuts went through and under McCain’s plan to make them permanent, that would be the going rate from now on.
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