...and make sure they’re your targets and not someone else’s. Then take careful aim, remember how I taught you to throw — with vigor and accuracy — and let the...…
...your information is limited. Even so, you have to decide how to play the hand. It’s a good metaphor for the manager’s job — making decisions despite imperfect information, while...…
...the courage required to show up for work. The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11th are horrifying and despicable. In a world that allows both...…
...gray hair and exposed scalp is an unstated, but vital qualification. When it comes to evaluating Web services, the latest next-big-thing in information technology, gray hair and exposed scalp helps....…
...gadgets, but we in IT resisted the notion for decades, even though business users clearly would have preferred it to the “waterfall” methodologies we insisted on, secure in our conviction...…
...is, they assorted non-randomly in the population. It turns out, though, that (for example) skin color, height, eye color, and heritable cognitive characteristics have no discoverable genetic linkage. They don’t...…
...and are determined to persuade us all that this is an inescapable trend, and good for us besides. It can be, too. More than twenty years ago the SAS Institute...…
...on how you hire and promote is, however, minimal: Except as adjusted by your employer’s affirmative action policy, base both decisions purely on merit. At the staff level, IT is...…
...else into trouble. Straight information is hard to come by. How can you maximize your chances of getting some? First and most important, make sure of your facts. Just because...…
...by easily ten times or more compared to IT’s bronze age of hand coding and batch compilation. 3. If you need inexpensive developers, look to small-town America. While you won’t...…