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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss a couple of pieces of information that they have recently encountered. The first item is an article from The New Yorker about Clayton Christensen's explorations into why big businesses fail. The other is the announcement of a new service from ProQuest called Udini.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about bosses. While it's easy to gripe about bosses, George and Joan take a deeper look and explore the idea that the problem isn't always just the boss - it can also be the employee and/or the workplace.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at some ideas from libraries that are ahead of the curve in developing new cash flows in tough times. You'll be amazed at the ideas!

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.

For this installment of "George and Joan Thinking Out Loud," Joan was unable to make the recording session, so George interviews a veteran librarian.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss an article that George recently read in the magazine Fast Company, The Great Tech War of 2012.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at IT in libraries - more specifically, about the relationship between library culture and IT culture. What do libraries look for when hiring IT people? What sorts of skills are needed? What might be reasonable expectations for libraries to have?

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, Joan starts things off by relating her experience at a recent League of California Cities conference. A panel she moderated got on the topic of underutilized library skills and this topic provides the grist for a lively discussion.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan suggest that librarians devote less of their energy to formatting the “right” answers when writing requests for proposals (or requests for information) and more care and thought to asking the right questions.