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One Red Poll: How left-brained or right-brained are you? (at work)

Left: Logic, detail, patterns, facts. Right: Meaning, possibility, imagination. How do you use your brain at work, or how does it use you? Choose your discipline and compare your answer.

One Red Question - The Developer Ratio (VIDEO, POLL)

One Red Question - The Developer Ratio (VIDEO, POLL)

How many 'average' developers is one 'great' developer worth? Steve Jobs says 50-to-1, others say 1000-to-1, some say none-to-1. Just how valuable are the best devs and engineers when it comes to building a product?

One Red Question: How much of your yearly vacation time do you actually take?

One Red Question: How much of your yearly vacation time do you actually take?

Do you max out your days-off or is your vacation time like Loch Ness: the odd sighting but mostly myth?

Fill in the blank: My Job is ________

Fill in the blank: My Job is ________

One Red Question: Love your job? Loathe it? Tell us how you really feel....but do it in one word.

One Red Question: What's your favourite summer work perk?

One Red Question: What's your favourite summer work perk?

Red Canary has put forward a deeply philosophical and profound question this week. You may need a few hours to work through it.

One Red Question: You're starting your own company. How many of your co-workers would you take with you?

One Red Question: You're starting your own company. How many of your co-workers would you take with you?

Consider the people you work with on a daily basis: how many would you want working for you as the CEO of a new organization?

One Red Question: How much email do you receive per day? What percentage do you 'process'?

Does email overload sap your efficiency? Can you imagine getting nearly 400 on your first day? Take the poll and share your pain.

Stunningly awful remote demos in ten easy steps

We've all endured horrible remote product demos says Peter Cohan. He outlines 10 tongue-in-cheek approaches for making sure your company's presentations are equally cluttered, vague and banal.

A Twitter business card, good idea? (Poll)

A Twitter business card, good idea? (Poll)

Job seeker Rick Stomphorst has created a business card that emulates a Twitter status update, and includes contact information. What's your take on this idea?

One Red Question: What drives you crazy about managing people?

Crazies, lazies, pettiness, power plays, power nappers. You've managed them all without a whit of recognition from your own boss. What's your management gripe?

Add some creativity to your resume, but perhaps not this much

Add some creativity to your resume, but perhaps not this much

There’s much to be said for a resume that stands out. But don’t expect to copy these ambitious and creative CVs and get brought on as a VP of Finance.

One Red Question: What's the worst management trend of the past 20 years? (VIDEO)

One Red Question: What's the worst management trend of the past 20 years? (VIDEO)

Remember re-engineering, management by objectives, service-oriented architecture, kaizen and other trendy fads that flamed out? What management philosophy would like you to add to that pile?

Nortel severance package - Enhanced for eBay

A former Nortel employee put relics from the company's glory days up on eBay, along with some sardonic commentary and a few useful pieces for surviving in a post-Nortel, full-bore-recession economy.

Pink Slip Parties return to Toronto

Pink slip parties, a vestige of the Dot Com bust, have returned to Toronto.

Mazi TV - Episode 3 - Music Startups (VIDEO)

Mazi TV - Episode 3 - Music Startups (VIDEO)

Mazi.tv hosts Vikki and Poppy review several UK music startups, including Spotify, Ooizit and Yourspins.com.

Call for nominations: Canada's Web 2.0 Innovators

One of the few lists of its kind, Backbone's 'P.I.C.K. 20' panel looks at a breadth of Canadian startups.

This tech CEO would clean toilets, would you?

Joel Spolsky, CEO of Fog Creek software and author of Joel on Software, writes of the hands-on leadership style that he learned in the Israeli armed forces.

3D Desktop Prototype from Toronto-based Startup (VIDEO)

3D Desktop Prototype from Toronto-based Startup (VIDEO)

Watch how BumpTop manipulates files, images and other objects in a three-dimensional desktop environment.

Calling all Widget Developers - win up to $25,000 in 13 categories

Motorola is sponsoring a contest where amateur developers can create and submit wireless widgets in a number of categories. Not a bad way to sharpen your coding and creative chops and maybe earn some extra cash in '09.



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