I remember my Dad, sitting at the kitchen table with a pencil, columnar pad, cranking an adding machine. He literally spent days calculating prices for all the varied products his company sold. When I was older, we’d visit automotive trade shows stateside 2 or 3 times a year; if you wanted to import new products, ...
I’ve worked with a lot of different companies over the years — CTO for a national long distance reseller, Operations Manager for an Interconnect phone company, consulting on High Speed Internet Access and Services for Business, to name a few. What defines the good ones is how well they rise to the occasion during tough times… Do you know ...
The big, iconic brands I recall from my youth (before it had been misspent): Coke, Tide, Esso, GM, Ford and Chrysler. Coke’s easy to understand, Mom always used Tide, while Dad always filled his Buick with Esso gas. Most of you are too young to know how big a deal the “Big 3” automakers were. ...
Working in the high speed internet world means friends and acquaintances always assume I’m all over the latest trends, gizmos, apps and services. And to some extent I am — in fact I have to be, but… A New (OLD) Rule to Live By Only some of you will remember the TV series Banacek back ...
“We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” One of my favourite quotes is from former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. It’s interesting that he was ...
Did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up? I’m sure it’s different for everybody… some people finish school with a target trajectory firmly in mind. I suspect most people were like me, only knowing what they didn’t want. I kicked around Europe for a couple of years, doing odd jobs, occasionally ...
I’ve always thought epiphany* was a neat word. (*A sudden realization about the nature or meaning of something, often due to a trigger event.) I’m embarrassed to report that it wasn’t until my early forties that I actually realized a pickle and a cucumber were the same vegetable. It’s funny, I like pickles, but I detest cucumbers. ...
I’ve always been that guy in the office with the latest gadget, which makes me either annoying or interesting, depending on your point of view. So here’s one user’s perspective on the iPAD2: CONTENT CONSUMPTION Music, online radio, newspapers, reading email, video, text messages… it’s an amazing tool. I regularly download digital versions of the ...
”It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, you know that Bilbo is giving Frodo good advice. For you and I, or our businesses ...
