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Blog post“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” – Muhammad Ali
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Blog postWhen I was a teenager, many households had to add a phone line because my fellow teens and I spent so much time talking to each other in the evenings. Housewives stereotypically (we are talking about stereotypes) spent hours during the day gossiping with friends over the phone. Now that we’re old enough that geezing
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Blog post“My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, ‘just wait.’” – Judy Tenuta
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Blog postRunning IT is hard enough when all the CIO has to contend with are changing business demands. But these are far from the only “condition fluxes” IT has to deal with. Take an example: Imagine some aspects of the business you support depend on a reliable, predictable, and immutable definition of the second. No, not
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Blog post“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
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Blog postWe haven’t talked about common sense recently. Especially, you might have wondered why, when devoting two full columns to gun control (don’t worry – this isn’t a third), I didn’t propose measures about which the popular, adjectival form … “commonsense” … apply. I didn’t because I couldn’t – not after having published this way back
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Blog postThe scenario: Your boss (“Brad”) assigns you to lead a solution design team. The team’s purpose is to perform an opportunity analysis for creating an augmented reality app that leapfrogs competitors’ YouTube DIY product support. The result: Your analysis shows the opportunity is large. Not so much for the app itself, which would be profitable
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Blog post“Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.” – Aristotle
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Blog postA week ago, the then-one-week-old shooting in Buffalo, New York was appalling. It’s been superseded by this week’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas. In Buffalo the victims were targeted because of their race. More people died In Uvalde than in Buffalo, and all but one were school children. Who targets school children? Last week I cited
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Blog post“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick
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Blog postWhat can we do about it? Brace yourself. What follows is one of my dreaded Public Affairs columns. Bear with me. It does directly bear on your responsibilities and obligations as a business leader and manager. I’m talking about the recent Buffalo mass shooting, because how can I not? That’s the Buffalo, New York mass
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Blog post“It seems this does not work in theory, only in practice.” – David Reeves Bogg, about Ethernet, which he co-invented.
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Blog postIt’s official, to the extent these things become official: The new magic buzzword for the old magic “people” third of the PROCESS / Technology / people magic triangle is “hybrid workforce.” Arguing by analogy has its limits, primary among them being that it has no virtues. But still, it’s worth remembering that the archetypal hybrid,
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Blog post“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Blog postBefore we get started, a correction. Last week, due to too many re-writes, I ended up posting backward logic, as several correspondents pointed out. You’ll find a corrected version here, near the bottom, in the Bob’s Last Word segment. # # # Speaking of bad metrics (we weren’t, but I couldn’t come up with a
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Blog post“Sufferin’ succotash!” – Tweety Bird’s nemesis, Sylvester the cat
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Blog postThere once was a feller named Elon For Twitter he just made a deal on Is he free speech’s savior Or is his behavior Just something we’ll never agree on? Social media are the best source of accurate news for Russians trying to understand what’s really going on in Ukraine. Social media are also the
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Blog post“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.” – Sid Caesar
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Blog postSpeaking of thinking about thinking, it’s time to talk about systems thinking – a topic spotlighted in Peter Senge’s groundbreaking The Fifth Discipline (1990). Systems thinking is about breaking any whole into not only its component parts, sub-parts, and sub-sub-parts ad infinitum, but also their sub-parts’ interrelationships. It’s a big subject – so big there’s
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