Posts belonging to Category Management
Posted by Tom on September 19, 2011
Interesting summary of a new university study on leadership ineffectiveness. This study shows that, the more power a leader has, and the higher up they are in an organization, the less likely they are to seek advice from others on making decisions. In fact, the most powerful leaders are the least likely to ask for [...]
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Posted by Tom on September 5, 2011
OK…another one I just HAD to write… Today’s news is filled with articles about how the US Post Office is warning Congress that it will default if they don’t do something very soon. There are so many things wrong with that statement I don’t know where to start. The US Post Office is a shining [...]
Categories: business, Management
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Posted by Tom on August 31, 2011
By now we’ve all heard the news that Steve Jobs has stepped down from Apple. I hope it’s not because of his health, but it probably is. Too bad for Steve. And, too bad for us. Steve Jobs has accomplished more in his life to delight consumers of digital electronics than anyone else. Given the [...]
Categories: business, Leadership, Management, Product Design
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Posted by Tom on June 7, 2010
Some of you may have seen my recent techblog article regarding AT&T’s newly- announced data plans. Well, here is the story behind the story. If you take the time to dig into the details, you will find that AT&T actually has the moral high ground on this one. Unfortunately, they succumed to the temptation to [...]
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Posted by Tom on March 4, 2010
I thought I’d recall for you my recent experiences with Netflix. I really love this service, but in the past few months I’ve been concerned about the quality of service delivery I’m getting. Specifically, I routinely get DVDs which are unplayable. I would estimate that, on average, one out of every five DVDs I get [...]
Categories: Management
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