Tracking the reflexivity of the (dis)engaged citizen: some methodological reflections

The relationship between governments and citizens in many contemporary democracies is haunted by uncertainty and sociologists face the task of listening effectively to citizens’ own reflections on this uncertain relationship. This article reflects on the qualitative methodology of a recently completed UK project which used a combination of diary and multiple interviews/ focus groups to track over a fieldwork period of up to a year citizens’ reflections on their relationship to a public world and the contribution to this of their media consumption. In particular, the article considers how the project’s multiple methods enabled multiple angles on the inevitable artificiality and performative dimension of the diary process, resulting in rich data on people’s complex reflections on the uncertain position of the contemporary citizen

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

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In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems remain stubbornly remedial, exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It's a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and management practice utterly out of sync. That's about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and to act on them. The original StandOut provided top notch management insights from one of the world's foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting edge online assessment tool. Now, in addition to a much more powerful assessment, and a robust report on your most dominant strengths, StandOut 2.0 provides: - A StandOut profile, easily customized and exported, that you can use to present the very best of yourself to your team, and your company- Your own Personalized Strengths Channel, which, after taking the 15 minute assessment, will send you a weekly tip, insight, or technique, to help you do your best work this week- For team leaders, the ability to create a team dashboard including each member's StandOut profile, to help you make the right moves- Access to an entire strengths based performance management system, including a check in tool to capture priorities and track engagement: a survey tool to help you gauge what your team is thinking and feeling; and an evaluation tool to help reveal real time performance levels of every single team member StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide and tool for building on your strengths to further your career, and to help your team and organization win.xi+211p.;14,5x22c

First, break all the rules: hal-hal yang dilakukan secara berbeda oleh para manajer terbaik dunia

Apa yang membedakan para manajer hebat dunia dari lainnya? Banyak, tentu! Namun satu yang pasti, para manajer hebat memiliki satu ciri umum: Mereka tidak ragu-ragu melanggar nyaris setiap aturan yang disakralkan oleh kebijaksanaan konvensional. Mereka tak percaya bahwa, dengan pelatihan yang cukup, seseorang dapat mencapai apa saja yang dipikirkannya. Mereka tak berusaha membantu orang lain mengatasi kelemahannya. Bahkan, mereka menganakemaskan karyawan tertentu. Buku ini menyajikan temuan mengagumkan Gallup Organization dari studi mendalam bercakupan luas tentang manajer hebat dunia. Beberapa orang berada di posisi kepemimpinan, sementara lainnya supervisor. Beberapa orang berada di perusahaan kategori Fortune 500, sementara lainnya tergolong pemain kunci perusahaan dan kewirausahaan kecil. Di mana pun mereka, manajer hebat yang jadi fokus riset Gallup adalah orang-orang unggul di balik talenta setiap karyawan berkinerja tinggi. Mereka inilah manajer garis-depan yang .menjadi kunci untuk menarik dan mempertahankan karyawan berbakat. Inilah buku pertama yang menyuguhkan tolok ukur penting kesuksesan perusahaan, serta membuktikan kaitan antara pandangan karyawan dengan produktivitas, keuntungan, kepuasan pelanggan, dan tingkat turn-over. Di dalamnya, terdapat pelajaran penting 'perihal prestasi dan karier gemilang bagi manajer di semua tingkat--dan di atas segalanya, buku ini memandu Anda cara penerapannya sesuai situasi Anda sendiri