Young enough to know everything, old enough to know better.
Marketing, Sales, Development. Friends, Foes, and I am my own worst enemy. Top of mind this week as a few new friends "get going" and try to figure out the "how to." Starting a company is hard no matter what you are selling but when you are selling common services, it adds an additional layer …
Gaining Skills in Flight As people across the world are losing their jobs due to Covid-19, there are also areas of opportunity and growth. Many countries are shutting down and sending people home. In the world of IT, some global service providers have dependency on lower cost geographic markets. The complication with some of these …
Bunch of Cloudholes out there I tell ya. CIO "I want to save money." Vendor "Move all your services to the cloud." CIO "How much will I save?" Vendor "More than you can imagine." CIO "I have a good imagination." CIO reports to the CEO and the board they can save bajillions of dollars moving …
It was the beginning of the summer and the bushes started to grow very quickly. At first, they were just sprouting in all directions which created a messy disorganized very natural appearance. A few weeks passed and they started to get bigger and overtake some of the other flowers and plants in the garden. With …
Companies Need to End Individual Performance Reviews Consider for a moment we are sitting in the audience of a symphony orchestra. They are playing ..You listen to them play and now you are given a score card to rate them. You now have to pick one of the musicians and choose which one is the best. …
New Ways of Working | Digital Workplace | Silver Solution Silver Stars Faster to work (Time to competency) - They already know a lot. Less training required - Many older workers focus on learning the things they need to know to do the job and require less overall training. Upward mobility not issue - Many older workers …
The Business of Business The future of work is a hot topic but not one we should be fixated with or discussing as much as we do. We should be talking about the NOW of work. Workforce Change The workforce is changing and companies aren't keeping up with the changes. There is an active reduction …
"Change is easy for those driving it and hard for those being driven by it." - Anyone but me Change Leaders ... Understand change from strategic and tactical perspectives. Accept short term failures as part of long term success. Communicate through any and every channel. Embed themselves into the fabric of the organization and …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI This was a parody but it reflects a lot of discussion. The Trouble with Kids Today "A PROGENY YET MORE CORRUPT" In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote: Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give …
This week I read an article in WSJ Whatever happened to KM by Thomas Davenport where he discusses some anecdotal and data driven evidence of a decreasing interest in knowledge management. I found the article interesting but it felt a lot like Anne Thomas Manes 2009 declaration on the death of SOA . The points …
The Cohenization Project 