Don’t Take Sides, Take Issues (How To Think About Wikileaks)
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been following the Wikileaks saga with increasing interest, because it embodies a principle in which I firmly believe: Don’t take sides, take issues. People have asked if I’m pro-Wikileaks or anti-Wikileaks. One of my friends said she was anti-anti-Wikileaks. The problem with taking sides is that its rare that sides are [...]
The Unstuffed Life
Charles Dickens once wrote, “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” Yet while many seem to understand this principle wh…
Your Way Or The Right Way?
We all like to think that we do the right thing. But it’s very easy to get lazy and reverse the causality–to believe that something is right because we do it. White House Chief of Staff Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel famously said of the Great Recession, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” Yet pushing [...]
SaaS Vendors Need A Mental Shift
Rant Alert: The post might be bordering on rant but it is very important for the success of SaaS In April, I wrote a post about how SaaS users need a mental shift to do computing differently in this Cloud era. I have argued that they have to adjust themselves psychologically to play the Cloud [...]
