ManagementSpeak: I would really value your input on this report. Translation: I haven’t got a clue about this. Thanks to Glenn Williams, our clue-full source, who gets credit by name...…
ManagementSpeak: Feature-rich. Translation: Bug-riddled. Thanks to “Bruce N.” for this bug-free, single-feature ManagementSpeak....…
...reporting rather than using the Settled data. Translation: We’re afraid you’ll find the errors in our Settled data. This week’s example of what-they-say vs what-they-mean is, in contrast, error free....…
ManagementSpeak: We’re going to have a friendly competition between teams. Translation: We think we’ve found a clever way to get employees to work extra hours for free. The competition among...…
...have software that surreptitiously watches employees at their desks. Telephones will include software that surreptitiously records all conversations in an office. And why not? It’s the company’s computer and telephone,...…
...a simplistic, comforting one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it’s remotely plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone else for their problems. Making good decisions requires that you recognize and...…
...the many instances here are foreshadowings of both Enron and a current IT controversy. The Enron foreshadowing? Both the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad companies created separate construction...…
...1999) we should never have placed our emphasis on information in the first place. Not that information is a bad thing, you understand. It’s that information is the frosting, not...…
I hate getting old. It isn’t about the increase in my scalp-to-hair ratio. It isn’t the tinnitus that makes understanding conversation in a noisy environment inconveniently difficult. It isn’t even...…