...relatives of physical punishment — are all too commonly the first response of business leaders. The obvious, syllogistic conclusion is left as an exercise for the reader. Disciplinary action is...…
...Brad to make the committee’s decision for it. Brad’s responsibility is to give the committee important information it can use to make up its own collective mind. The second was...…
...the perceived risks of a Zero Day vulnerability? What was communicated to them from CrowdStrike about the release? Are there companies running enterprise systems without a “Dev/Test/QA/Prod” environment architecture, based...…
...on the comparison between the impacts of investing in foreign and domestic subsidiaries, and said nothing at all about outsourcing. When an organization as respected as the Washington Post commits...…
What annoys me most is that they think they’re being clever. I’m talking about the people who are resurrecting “communist” and “socialist” to describe those with whom they disagree. Really,...…
...appearing simple through the expedient of being commonplace. To cure your complacency, consider how many separate items, most of which you don’t understand at all, combine to let e-mail, or...…
...for companies that have a blame-oriented culture and are wondering whose fault it is. For example: Combinatorials: I’ve mentioned the formula n(n-1)/2 before. You can use it to calculate the...…
...insurance company that’s grown through acquisition to the point that it now has eleven functionally equivalent underwriting/policy administration systems. And no, it isn’t run as a holding company. Whenever there’s...…
...door. In the future, what would be speedy is their software compared to the previous version. For decades, software engineers have complained that features, no matter how sloppily implemented, are...…
...about sales, marketing, and customer service, the functions that have direct customer contact. Companies routinely outsource any or all of these — independent distributors frequently handle sales, more companies use...…