Me: "Why don't you call the column 'Management Is...'?" Boss: "Like the cartoon?" Me: "Yeah, why not?" Boss: "Oooooh, I like it." He: "What cartoon?" Boss: "It's this cartoon from the 70's called 'Love Is...'. Type it into the web and it'll come up." Me: "It has naked children in it." He: "And I've never
VP: "Your shoelace is untied." Me: "So it is...I'll get to it in a minute." VP: "How're going to manage with your arm laid up? Let me..." Me: "Let you what?" VP: "Tie your shoe. Prop it up here 'cause I can't bend over." Me: "I haven't had my shoes tied since I was four.
"We don't have to do that, it's overkill." "Yes we do! The client asked for this!" "No, the client asked for the moon. They only need a night light."
As you may recall, I've given up recreational web surfing for my Strategic Change I class. I've gone one whole week without the digital crutch. How's it been? Well... The department assistant of my degree program wants to recruit me to help with their site. I don't suppose, technically, that would qualify as recreational web
"Ah, poor thing! How did you break your arm?" "I had to fight for the last Twinkie." "No, really..." "It was a rough day shopping." "Ah, c'mon..." "Someone had to fight off the horde of angry, Harley bikers as the royal family made its escape." "I mean it! What did you do?" "I fell down
Okay, I've slipped a few times, but they've been small, glancing blows off the Internet. Kath sent me a link to her new hat, and I had to check it out. It was an accident, I didn't think about NOT clicking. Grrrrr. After that, I nearly checked out the political funnies that JZ sends me,
Me: "I think the crisis communication plan is flawed. In that scenario, there's no way a virus could be passed through the content management system onto the external site. There's no reason to shut that server down." Boss's Boss: "In a crisis, you have to shut down everything. You don't have time for a decision
As part of my first graduate class, Strategic Change I, we're learning how employees react to various changes in companies' strategic direction and how these companies manage change processes. My instructutor feels that we can't really know or understand change unless we go through a personal change experiment ourselves. So our first assignment is to
I just read Seth Godin's article at Fast Company, You Are Your References where he talks about how on-line life and digital footprints affect how potential employers see their employees. Everything from comments on Amazon to rants at Epinions could be considered. I appreciate that the scope of his article was limited to employment, but
I've been shocked today by an influx of Peep knowledge. One, La Cabeza, had no idea what a Peep was when it was mentioned during lunch. I can't imagine growing up in this country and NOT KNOWING about Peeps. That's on the order of never trying pizza or not learning how to drive. Mind-blowing. LaCa,
