When Will We Hit Bottom?
When will we hit bottom? July 2015“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” It started with racist comments.
Farmers’ Pain from Trade Wars
So…some Trump supporters are finally starting to feel the pain from his trade policies. I wish the farmers could have been perspicuous enough to know that Trump was going to make life miserable for everybody, not just for people with brown skin. I don’t know what the farmers where looking for when they voted for…
Is He Being Elliptical?
I was recently reading one of Seth Godin’s posts and the one on surveys was interesting. It had some really good pointers on census versus surveys. But the part that really stayed with me was his assertion that surveys are not anonymous. At first, I thought he was talking about generic public surveys but then…
Using Macros with SharePoint and Doing Videotaping with PowerPoint
I spent the past weekend trying to do a mini-videotape on how to navigate SharePoint and use a certain file. This post is just my stream of consciousness output of what I learned during the whole process. First, the videotaping. You can actually do a videotape of your screen using PowerPoint. It’s basically “inserting your…
Innovation and Efficiency
A week or so ago a McKinsey article on innovation popped up in my LinkedIn feed. It’s an old article but probably still relevant today. It’s the usual lament about how difficult it is to innovate. My opinion is that innovation flies in the face of today’s efficiency paradigm. Being innovative or creative is very…
Wall Street Journal’s Story on Companies Failing to Reskill
Here’s an interesting article from Wall Street Journal about companies’ difficulty reskilling their employees. I’m not surprised that companies are having difficulties after decades of slashing training budgets on the premise that they don’t provide a return on shareholder’s dollars. It was always about the shareholders and whether they valued such training (they didn’t). And…