Archive for January, 2010
ManagementSpeak, 1/25/2010
Monday, January 25th, 2010ManagementSpeak: More later.
Translation: I don’t consider you worthy of the conversation in the first place, and I have no intention of carrying it on with you in the future.
Paul Novelli joins the KJR Club with this worthy translation.
Debatable propositions
Monday, January 25th, 2010A good debater, I’m told, can successfully argue either side of an issue. I’ve also been told, mostly by debaters, that this is desirable … that learning to debate is an excellent way to create fair-minded citizens.
Being debaters, they do an excellent job of making this case. Ironically, they do not seem able to argue [...]
ManagementSpeak, 1/18/2010
Monday, January 18th, 2010ManagementSpeak: All good ideas degenerate into work.
Translation: Unless you would like to do the work, please keep your bright ideas to yourself.
This week’s anonymous contributor shared his bright idea with us.
A Cloud in time
Monday, January 18th, 2010The first article I ever published in InfoWorld began, “Does anyone else find the Gartner Group annoying?”
While no longer a Group, the annoying part is alive and well, as evidenced by its recent prediction, reported in Network World, that by 2012, “Cloud computing will become so pervasive that by 2012, one out of five businesses [...]
Great Quotations, 1/11/2010
Monday, January 11th, 2010“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
- Oscar Wilde
And thanks to Jack Kastorff for including this in this year’s Lessons from Life calendar (jack.kastorff@comcast.net).
More for your book list
Monday, January 11th, 2010Consider Burj Khalifa.
It’s widely understood to be a triumph of architecture and engineering, for the most part due to its height and beauty.
I think so too, although I know nothing important about it. If I had an office on the 157th floor that was too warm or cold, the facilities manager might or might not [...]
ManagementSpeak, 1/4/2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010ManagementSpeak: Now what would that look like in our environment?
Translation: It’s the right thing to do, but it’s much better for my career to avoid standing out.
Alan Earnshaw shows what this phrase looks like in the KJR Club environment.
Creating wealth for fun and profit
Monday, January 4th, 2010Over the past decade, employment growth netted zero. Personal assets actually declined. For middle-income families, so did wages. (Source: “A Decade of Zeroes,” Dirk van Dijk of Zacks Investment Research, 1/4/2010.)
It appears our national economic experiment of attempting to build an economy on finance, services, and information, leaving such trivialities as manufacturing to other less [...]
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