...MSN.com) and information delivery (the ever semi-popular MSNBC). What pays the bills is the sale of software licenses. Microsoft is a software company. So why Bing.com and the Yahoo! acquisition-turned-joint-venture?...…
...day. Compare that to the company you work for and ask yourself this basic question: Is “winning” in your company defined in Microsoft’s terms — winning customer mindshare, from that...…
...in IT. None. Why would it? You see, capitalist societies include a complicating business factor called competition. It’s a complicated concept, but I’ll try to simplify it. Competitors, you see,...…
...circumstance, but mostly it means wear a business suit? Communication is about listening, informing, persuading, and facilitating communication among others. In organizations with high levels of communication the key question...…
...situation? You don’t run a whole company — you run a department or division in the company. The company doesn’t have a system of simultaneous equations that shows exactly how...…
...way that’s familiar … at first. Will cloud computing eventually be quicker and cheaper than traditional in-house-data-center-based computing? I’ll give that a definite maybe, and an even more definite sometimes....…
...which is to say, I don’t care if everyone does better. I care that compared to everyone else, I’m not last in line. Luxury is comparative, not absolute, so if...…
...compensation: This is the magic buzzword for the annual bonus. It’s called “variable” compensation because it varies each year depending on how each individual employee performed that year. Variable compensation...…
...new political party — the Competence Party. Our platform: Competence does matter … a lot more than policy. We’re already in the annoying run-up to the next presidential campaign. Here’s...…
...believed what they were told. In the early 1980s, corporate America adopted the market theory of compensation. According to this theory, companies should pay employees what the labor market will...…
