...into religious factions that persecute each other. Minnesotans tell Iowa jokes. A business deprived of strong competition isn’t immune to this human tendency either – it fragments into departments whose...…
...level of awareness on this issue. Maybe I did. But communication is defined as the delivery of information, information is defined as that which reduces uncertainty, and whatever impact the...…
...protection. Take, for example, the case of Walden O’Dell. O’Dell chose this unfortunate turn of phrase in an invitation to a Republican fund-raiser: “[I’m] committed to helping Ohio deliver its...…
...needs … we’re not going to invest in technology for technology’s sake.” (Gee, do ya think?) This last statement usually comes from technophobes who wouldn’t recognize the business benefits of...…
...in the union has its very own regulatory rules and regimes governing the same sorts of services. Fifty separate sets of rules place a significant compliance burden on companies that...…
...lost his empire. Cortez didn’t win because of his watercraft incineration but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a symbol for total commitment to a result. In business, burn-the-boats tactics...…
...the theory holds, while the entire history of our industry consists of ugly little facts that disprove it. The early dominators – the Apple II computer, CP/M operating system, Macintosh...…
...— they give it their closest attention. That’s because a company’s compensation system is the loudest, clearest, and most emphatic communications channel it has for explaining to employees what it...…
...are toast. Thanks to Conrad Macina, who observes that both sides call a merger a merger, but in an acquisition, the acquiring company calls it an acquisition; the acquired company...…
...a year after the deadline — if it got completed at all. Compared with the simple compilers we had when I started programming, our integrated development environments should easily make...…
