Are we sabotaging ourselves with our problem-solving mentality? Every day I talk with dedicated and highly effective IT professionals whose worried looks makes you think they just suffered a major demotion. It hardly seems to fit, given the new systems created and the important problems they have helped solve for their stakeholders. Yet, instead of […]
This past weekend, March 1-2, was National Day of Unplugging and because I was so busy trying to keep up with everything, I missed it. (Irony intended.) I heard about this project when it first got started a couple of years ago and thought what a great idea. I totally support the founders ideas to […]
I just had the most perfect day. Here’s the background. I’m out in Colorado on a semi-vacation week trying to enjoy some skiing, solitude and time to catch up on a number of projects. The weather has been nice and the conditions have been pretty good considering that the area in which I am staying […]
Remember the Sesame Street song, “Put Down the Duckie”? In case you don’t, it was sung to Ernie, who really wanted to learn to play the saxaphone: but he had a problem. He wouldn’t put down his rubber duckie. He could get a squeak out of the sax, but until he put all his attention […]
In case you didn’t hear, Sarah Palin’s contract with Fox News is no more. Love her or hate her, she has been a huge sensation across America. Why then would Fox News drop her? Turns out that her “virtual” show never really took hold. She would “phone in” from Wasella and viewers would often be […]
