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Today’s KJR is “Based on a True Story.”

Which, if I worked in the movie industry, would mean it’s a work of complete fiction. Congress should form a regulatory agency to evaluate all claims of true-story-ness. It could provide a rating system, ranging from VA-90 (Verified 90+% accurate) to AP-10 (the names of fewer than 10% of the otherwise entirely imaginary characters came from Actual People).

Our public dialog, while based on true stories, is in sad shape, and by understanding what’s wrong with it you can lead your organization more effectively.

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It appeared in Forbes, it was about how to run IT better, and it was fatuously patronizing.

For a change of pace, it didn’t come from superficially informed business pundits who assume their general-purpose insights qualify them to offer up brilliant ideas for us we’d otherwise never have thought of.

The article (called to my attention by Bruce Gutzmann — thanks!), was titled, “The Convergence Of IT And Business,” (Taylor Buley, 11/19/2009) and suggests, “There’s a new role for IT workers: business consultant.”

Who, you might ask, is so out of touch they think this is a new idea? It was a panel consisting of executives from Microsoft, VMWare, Hewlett-Packard, and other “major technology companies.”

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