Thursday, March 22, 2007
Friday, September 22, 2006
"The folks at Hewlett-Packard don't exactly hold journalists in high regard."
Howard Kurtz's (a reporter for the Washington Post who covers journalism) thoughts on the HP mess.. Do you think he can get away with such statements?
What message does the HP board send to its employees, vendors, community, prospective future employees, and competitors by its action to discover the source of the leaks.
Undertaking the policy Ms. Dunn initiated are of necessity fairly secretive. However, could not a board or at least a few trusted outside counselors not discuss such policies before undertaking them and then adhere to Warren Bennis' admonition to use George Washington's methods before he went into battle -- by soliciting the views of many people and making sure the prospective downsides of any proposals were fully vetted (by among other methods -- encouraging dissent and surrounding oneself with people unafraid to tell the boss that he's wrong or ill advised).
Howard Kurtz's (a reporter for the Washington Post who covers journalism) thoughts on the HP mess.. Do you think he can get away with such statements?
What message does the HP board send to its employees, vendors, community, prospective future employees, and competitors by its action to discover the source of the leaks.
Undertaking the policy Ms. Dunn initiated are of necessity fairly secretive. However, could not a board or at least a few trusted outside counselors not discuss such policies before undertaking them and then adhere to Warren Bennis' admonition to use George Washington's methods before he went into battle -- by soliciting the views of many people and making sure the prospective downsides of any proposals were fully vetted (by among other methods -- encouraging dissent and surrounding oneself with people unafraid to tell the boss that he's wrong or ill advised).
Saturday, September 9, 2006
Failure in implementation of initiatives at improving society is underrated as a cause of loss of confidence in the initiative even if the initiative if carried out in a more thoughtful manner would have had their intended effect.
Might our experience in Iraq after Saddam been significantly different if we had focused on post-invasion security, infrastructure protection, reassurance of the the Iraqi citizenry that Iraq is theirs to do what they wish with, our goal was strictly to unshackle them and treat everyone who might encounter our troops with respect, and most of all sending in many more troops to gain and maintain the upper hand? If we feel people sent to prison should have a chance of making it upon their release and not committing more crimes, wouldn't it behoove us to set up systems inside prisons to help inmates acclimate to the outside world, develop skills that will help them get jobs, and give incentives to employers to employ recently released inmates?
Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University and Clinton Administration Nobel prize-winning economist points out in athat the trouble with "globalization" is that there are so many losers resulting from how we've dealt with it (while ironically making efforts to further reward the winners with tax breaks and other benefits).
Why not undertake more efforts to transition our workers from a largely domestically competitive world to a global marketplace. Why not make globalization "win-win" so that everyone who wants to work and earn a good living, pay their taxes like everyone else, and feel like they are still getting their fair share of the pie get so much closer to it?
Is there not a lesson here that, for example, captitalism does bring out some of the best products, services, and rewards many people who work hard and take sizable risks. But it probably doesn't do so indiscriminately and areas in which it doesn't work as well the problem is not capitalism but our lack of efforts to soften some of the inevitable results of a system that rewards some much more than others, much of which is not based strictly on merit but much of it on chance.
Thanks to Daniel Gross for alerting me to this piece.
Might our experience in Iraq after Saddam been significantly different if we had focused on post-invasion security, infrastructure protection, reassurance of the the Iraqi citizenry that Iraq is theirs to do what they wish with, our goal was strictly to unshackle them and treat everyone who might encounter our troops with respect, and most of all sending in many more troops to gain and maintain the upper hand? If we feel people sent to prison should have a chance of making it upon their release and not committing more crimes, wouldn't it behoove us to set up systems inside prisons to help inmates acclimate to the outside world, develop skills that will help them get jobs, and give incentives to employers to employ recently released inmates?
Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University and Clinton Administration Nobel prize-winning economist points out in athat the trouble with "globalization" is that there are so many losers resulting from how we've dealt with it (while ironically making efforts to further reward the winners with tax breaks and other benefits).
Why not undertake more efforts to transition our workers from a largely domestically competitive world to a global marketplace. Why not make globalization "win-win" so that everyone who wants to work and earn a good living, pay their taxes like everyone else, and feel like they are still getting their fair share of the pie get so much closer to it?
Is there not a lesson here that, for example, captitalism does bring out some of the best products, services, and rewards many people who work hard and take sizable risks. But it probably doesn't do so indiscriminately and areas in which it doesn't work as well the problem is not capitalism but our lack of efforts to soften some of the inevitable results of a system that rewards some much more than others, much of which is not based strictly on merit but much of it on chance.
Thanks to Daniel Gross for alerting me to this piece.
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Advertising's future has finally arrived
Terrific piece in Strategy + Business on Advertising at The Future of Advertising is Now. We hear so often how this and that is going to change – and then when the promises / prognostications are not fulfilled we say that people were ahead of their time or they were wrong or we just forget about it. For a variety of reasons many many factors need to be in place for a sizable fraction of society is able to take advantage of a technological improvement. Well the future at least in advertising (and many other components of marketing) is finally here (or at least just around the corner). Whether it be the much more widespread us of the Internet, the vastly greater availability of broadband to so many, the integration of internet / email / instant messaging / and all htat into our lives and particularly the lives of those who don’t know life as a teenager or young adult without these tools. The piece hits on this terrifically well and should not be missed if you are interested in marketing and advertising trends.
Advertising's future has finally arrived
Terrific piece in Strategy + Business on Advertising at The Future of Advertising is Now. We hear so often how this and that is going to change – and then when the promises / prognostications are not fulfilled we say that people were ahead of their time or they were wrong or we just forget about it. For a variety of reasons many many factors need to be in place for a sizable fraction of society is able to take advantage of a technological improvement. Well the future at least in advertising (and many other components of marketing) is finally here (or at least just around the corner). Whether it be the much more widespread us of the Internet, the vastly greater availability of broadband to so many, the integration of internet / email / instant messaging / and all htat into our lives and particularly the lives of those who don’t know life as a teenager or young adult without these tools. The piece hits on this terrifically well and should not be missed if you are interested in marketing and advertising trends.
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