Indian students of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (AME) listen to their instructor during a practical training session. (Image credit: AFP via @daylife) I know you’ve heard of tree huggers, but have you ever heard of server huggers...Read More

September is coming to a close, and so will the spate of back-to-school/child-oriented blog posts from me (I promise). Just…after my coming review of the Fuhu Nabi tablet. And – D’oh! – this post...Read More

The tech industry attracts the worst kind of futurists, Clayton Christensen-quoting types who behold shifting paradigms, looming inflection points and disruptive innovations everywhere they look. The futurism business is so...Read More

Really great sales people have a skill set the rest of us do not natively possess; If you did have those skills, you would weigh your career options differently and probably make a lot more money.  This is not to surmise then that sales...Read More

“Would you like 500 calories, er, fries with that?”Global fast food juggernaut McDonald’s will list the calorie values on its menus across the U.S. next week, giving customers the chance to evaluate their choices. The parallel...Read More

I read a blog by Thomas Redman in the Harvard Business Review (Make the Case for Better Quality Data) that stated, “It costs ten times as much to complete a unit of simple work when the data are flawed in any way as it does when they&rsquo...Read More

There was a ton of news from Apple‘s event today, many of which may have sounded earthshattering to those nattering away on Twitter (raises hand), but upon more reflection, are probably irrelevant to those of us in the enterprise and...Read More

“Retail and commercial banks should be simple and they should be boring,” Lloyds Banking Group’s chief executive said last week. “The industry must change,” António Horta-Osório told the CBI Scotland...Read More

First, it was the Scandinavian-style Smorgasbord. Later, it was Old Country Buffet. My parents were immigrants who grew up in a time and place where starvation was a reality. Naturally, all-you-can-eat restaurants seemed like one of...Read More

To prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping season, I’m reading ‘Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)‘ by William Poundstone. Poundstone references a wide variety of psychologies studies that show...Read More