General George S. Patton

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton.
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Fastest Growing Technology companies

The categories of electronics, medical and digital delivery were tops among the CNN Money/Business 2.0 annual list of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Technology companies. Not surprisingly, California led all U.S. states with 37 of the top 100. Following California: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Connecticut. All told, 21 states placed at least one tech company in the top 100.
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The first email message

Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email. Tomlinson sent the first email message in late 1971. While working on the TENEX timesharing system, Tomlinson modified the existing SNDMG mail utility and CYPTNET protocol to allow mail transmission from one ARPANET host to another. Tomlinson also devised the ubiquitous @ between the user's name and the host name.
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Pareto's Principle

Pareto's Principle, or the 80/20 Rule, describes the principle that twenty percent of a resource is responsible for eighty percent of the results. The 80/20 Rule may be applied to almost anything, from the science of management to the physical world.
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Executive job change

Most executives cited the lack of challenges or opportunity for career growth rather than inadequate compensation as the main reason they left their last job, according to a recent survey by executive search firm Korn/Ferry International. Twenty percent cited ineffective leadership, while 17 percent said the attractive job market was why they left their last jobs.
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Hawthorne effect

The "Hawthorne effect" refers to improvements in worker productivity that result from the mere fact that they are being studied or observed. This observation came from studies carried out at Western Electric's Hawthorne plant in Illinois during the late 1920s. The experiments validated the idea that people are motivated by feeling involved and receiving attention rather than only economic factors.
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Return after a vacation

Monster.com offers several tips to make a smooth return to work after a vacation: Leave a to-do list for teammates and colleagues; draft a to-do list for your first day back; set up appropriate phone and email reminder and messages; plan and send requests to be fulfilled while you are away; schedule an extra day off to use to prepare; keep expectations low for the first days back to work.
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