I tend to look at someone’s decisions or the actions they’ve taken and wonder “What was the world they were looking at that would have had those actions and those decision seem like the exact right thing to do?” Now I know that not everyone thinks like me and thank goodness that’s true but for me […]
Month: May 2016
Avoiding Project Political Correctness
This year political correctness seems to be everywhere. In the US it’s a presidential election cycle so perhaps some level of political correctness goes with the territory. But political correctness isn’t just a political phenomenon. In the private sector, in public sector organizations, in volunteer or charitable work the insidiousness of being “PC” can wreak […]
Technical Alliances, the good, the bad and the ugly
I’ve been wrapping up our renewals of two of our key technical alliances at HMS Software this week and it has me take pause to think about the different aspects of how these partnership works. I’ve been most recently working on our Microsoft and Oracle relationships. We’ve had a technical partnership with Microsoft since 1995 […]
Old School
“Hey man, that’s old school,” said the person at the next table over from me at Starbucks. I looked up to see who he was talking to. To my surprise, he was looking right at me. The young man looked like he was studying for college. There were text books and an iPad in front […]