Category: business
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cola wars, taste tests, and marketing
Coke or Pepsi? I just watched a documentary on the “Cola wars” – and something obvious jumped out at me. First I’ll volunteer that I prefer Pepsi – but this is 100% because Coke tends to disturb my stomach MORE than Pepsi disturbs my stomach. full disclosure – I get the symptoms of “IBS” if…
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Modern “basics” of I.T.
Come my friends, let us reason together … (feel free to disagree, none of this is dogma) There are a couple of “truisms” that APPEAR to conflict – Truism 1: The more things change the more they stay the same. … and then … Truism 2: The only constant is change. Truism 1 seems to…
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Industry Changing Events and “the cloud”
Merriam-Webster tells me that etymology is the “the history of a linguistic form (such as a word)” (the official definition goes on a little longer – click on the link if interested …) The last couple weeks I’ve run into a couple of “industry professionals” that are very skilled in a particular subset of “information technology/assurance/security/whatever” but…
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“Leadership”, “Teaching”, and “Education”
Just some random thoughts – Starting off with a famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein – If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough Albert Einstein Leadership The Einstein quote came to mind for a “2 drink story” reason that I will not relate here. I’ve been a “student of leadership”…
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statistics vs analytics, sports in general and bowling in particular
what a title – first the youtube video demo/pitch for the “bowling analytics” product … statistics vs analytics Yes, there is a difference between “statistics” and “analytics” – maybe not a BIG difference but there is a difference. “Statistics” is about collecting and interpreting “masses of numerical data.” “Analytics” is about logical analysis – probably…
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leadership is communication, “winning”
I wrote a long post that either needs editing or deletion – but at least it served as “pre writing” for this post. status quo If you want to be precise the “status quo” is simply the “current situation.” Which technically means that whatever is happening at the moment is the “status quo.” Usually the…
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“great resignation”, part-time employees, engagement
I think I have commented on my love of “buzzwords” enough – that we can just jump into the “great resignation”/reshuffle/reprioritization/recognition/whatever … SO a significant number of people are choosing NOT to go back to jobs they obviously found “unsatisfying.” Trying to come up with a single reason “why” is pointless – because there (probably)…
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buzzword bingo, pedantic-ism, and the internet
just ranting One of the identifying characteristics of “expert knowledge” is understanding how everything “fits” together. True “mastery” of any field with a substantial “body of knowledge” takes time and effort. Which means there are always more people that “know enough to be dangerous” than there are “real experts.” Which is really just recognition of…
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leadership, generals, and politicians
I developed an interest in “leadership” from an early age. The mundane reasons for this interest aren’t important. It is even possible that “leaders” are/were a pre-requirement for the whole “human civilization” thing – i.e. we are all “leaders” in one form or another if we are “involved with other people.” SO an interest in…
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extremists, expert knowledge, more rules don’t make people honest
Back when “tradition warfare” was, well, “traditional” – I stumbled across a book that tried to answer the age old “why do countries go to ‘war’ against each other.” The researchers where approaching the question from a secular psychology perspective – but I’ll point out James 4:1-10 as kind of summarizing what the researchers found…