...belligerent. Respect reporting relationships. For that matter, show respect, plain and simple. And understand that compensation is at best a minor motivator for consultants (as opposed to consulting companies) just...…
...different and better in the future.” Or I could break setting direction down into its component parts: “Setting direction includes vision, strategy, mission, and values,” and leave it at that....…
...your system initiates the request. Either way you get new information, sorted into channels (another the-name-is-new-and-not-much-else concept), without your having to manually intervene. The only difference I can see is...…
...of the need to reserve time and attention for understanding What’s Going On Out There. It’s part of their job: C3I (command, control, communication and intelligence). Business leaders as a...…
...a meeting with your CEO and HR director as soon as you can. Explain that within IT at least, the company has three options, and that while you’re willing to...…
...financial case for it. By now, your company’s investment in IMS is somewhere between formidable and incalculable. The cost of recreating the same functionality in a modern DBMS would be...…
...as we’d been claiming until then. That was secondary. The big value was the information itself and what companies could do with it to improve decision-making. What, you thought this...…
...You feed the computer any old airplane wing design (for example) and a definition of what it means for a wing to be optimal. Let the computer churn for a...…
...Mail and shared directories mean we ship files back and forth, which in turn means we have to agree to common file formats. Progress is just dandy. In this case...…
...have inalienable rights. Corporations, in contrast, are legal fictions. They exist only within the framework of government and have whatever rights and privileges we give them. Government can revoke or...…
