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Response to Computerworld Article On Mac to PC Switch |
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Written by Site Admin
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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Every now and then you get wind of a puff piece in the popular press that irritates you to the point of standing up and saying, "Enough already!" Computerworld just ran an article explaining why one Mac user, the alleged CTO of a network engineering company, switched back to the PC platform after being on the Mac platform.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9074178&pageNumber=1 There is a reason why CTOs typically chart the core technology used in a company’s product and CIOs typically make decisions affecting the infrastructure and interoperability of the entire company’s operations. The financial implications of their decisions impact the company in vastly different ways. The fluid costs of R&D versus the long-term sunk-cost impact of infrastructure strategies hit the bottom line in different spots on the balance sheet. And at the risk of tweaking one of my wonderful CTO bretheren, I'll give you another clue about why this guy liked switching back to the PC. It let him play his favorite PC-based games again.
Here is my response to the Computerworld article. ------------------------------------------------------- |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 April 2008 )
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"I'm Taking My Stuff and Leaving..." |
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Written by Site Admin
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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I have long said that there is nothing more challenging than leading an all-volunteer organization. Don't get me wrong... I love leading volutneers and I'll probably be doing it until I'm too old to get out of bed in the morning. But when it comes to keeping leadership Maalox Moments at bay give me a team of strong-willed, high-paid corporate prima donnas any day. It’s often easier to manage the most arrogant of corporate star players than it is an organization full of volunteer visionaries bent on a mission of service.
Why?
Well, for one thing, paid employees, highly paid or not, will often tolerate leadership gaffs or a corporate vision that is slightly off target from their own because their livelihood often depends on it. I have seen otherwise brilliant minds suffer through the worst leadership infractions because the alternative is just more painful on the pocketbook. How else do you explain a mess like Enron or Tyco? (Yes, I know blatant greed and incompetence played a factor, but I'm sure someone down the food chain saw it coming and kept their mouths shut.) But there is another significant difference between the paid professional and the volunteer visionary that often makes the leadership process all the more challenging. Passion.
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iPhone, youPhone, Is The Enterprise (Really) Ready for the iPhone? |
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Written by Site Admin
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
I’m an unabashed gadget freak. I just have to have the latest toys. Sure, I excuse my obsession by saying I’m “testing” gear, being equipped to answer the tough questions my clients ask about whether they should use this technology or that. And my clients pay well for that advice because it saves them the headaches of making huge sunk-cost mistakes. So it’s easy to justify the cost of gadget testing when someone else is paying the freight.
But I resisted as long as possible when it came to the iPhone. Last week I finally gave in.
Here’s why. |
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