The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social insects in this visually spectacular volume.
Bert Hölldobler is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Leibniz Prize. He lives in Arizona and Germany.
Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard professor for nearly five decades, is the author of more than twenty books and the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Medal of Science. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

 
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works …

Simon R. Jones BSc PGDip MA from the Department of Psychology, Durham University takes this studies to his doctocal thesis. People with a higher caffeine intake, from sources such as coffee, tea and caffeinated energy drinks, are more likely to report hallucinatory experiences such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not there, according to the Durham University study.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/du-hci011209.php

With this in mind we can face the next coming week:

serve coffee in a meeting?

what are the “real” thoughts?
Predicted decision with home and safe feelings of a warm cup of coffee.  See …

An interview with Gill Corkindale from 29. Dezember 2008.
She is an Executive Coach and talks about - that Alpha personalities present unique challenges for those who work with them.
There are different strategies for working with an alpha boss
and also for managing alpha employees.

a great article on how the performance of a CEO could be enhanced & measured.

Leadership
Business processes
Giving employees a voice
 

Ben W. Heineman, Jr.  The Fatal Flaw in Pay for Performance 
Full article at Harvard Business Review Dec. 2008  click here