Corporate Arrogance

8月

4日

Do you know if your company is arrogant or lost touch with the real world?
Here are some points I found on Internet.

1. You hire and develop great people but then fail to listen to their input if it is nonconformist thinking.

2. Your company rationalizes its mistakes instead of learning from them.

3. Your company focuses almost exclusively on financial success with little regard for legacy and social impact.

4. Your company lobbies against sound regulations because they may add complexity to the way you operate.

5. Your leaders pat themselves on the back when the company succeeds financially, even though success derived from market forces rather than actual performance.

6. Your leaders believe the company can't fail.

7. Your leaders dictate more than they listen.

8. The company underestimates its competition and minimizes the success competitors achieve.

9. Access to top leadership in the company requires wading through multiple layers of bureaucracy.

10. There is a focus on amassing the trappings of success: large, well-appointed offices, chauffeured cars, private jets, and the like.

11. Your company doesn't become a partner in a merger; it takes over, losing the value of the culture and learning the other organization might have provided.

12. Your company suffers from "Not Invented Here Syndrome," believing it holds the monopoly on great ideas, so that innovations coming from the outside ("Not Invented Here") are deemed to hold little value.

http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101220_008468.htm

#Business #Marketing

Tablet Sales are Slowing Down

8月

4日

People are not buying as much Tablets anymore but the sale of desktop and notebook PCs are up. This is because more and more people are using smartphones as alternative to tablets as smartphones are getting bigger and bigger.

This is a very interesting trends!!!

#Computer #Internet

Porsche Day in Redmond

8月

3日

It was Porsche Day at Redmond Town Center. There are many expensive Porsches like GT3RS and Turbos. I mean there are many of them. Maybe too many of them.

I like those air cooled Porsches.

#Bikes #Cars

DreamersI.com SPAM Filter Adjustment

8月

2日

I would like to lower SPAM threshold to 4.0 from current 5.5.
I checked many emails that come in to my mailbox and checked the SPAM scores. About 50% of them are over 4.0 but not much more. At the same time, all valid email had score of less than 1.5.

By moving to 4.0, we should be able to eliminate additional 30 to 50% of SPAM emails. We will proceed with this change on Monday August 4. If you have question or concern, please let me know.

http://www.dreamersi.com

#Computer #Internet

Murphy's Law

8月

2日

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Nothing on the Internet is free from the Murphy's Law. No matter how much redundancy you create, no matter how much you spend, your site and your email will sometime go down. Nobody wants to make it go down (except maybe hackers) but it will happen.

Whatever you store on the Internet can be stolen. The best thing you can do to protect information is not to store important data on the internet. This morning, Facebook, is down. It is a publicly traded multi-billion dollar corporation. The server is down. If this can happen to Facebook, it can happen to anyone.

#Computer #Internet

About Porsche 911 (996)

8月

1日

I learned three things about my Porsche 911 (996) today.

(1) There is a button where usually a bonnet release to raise and lower the rear spoiler.

(2) 1999 Porsche 911 (996) uses 10q of Mobil 1 0w40 oil and you need to constantly monitor oil level.

(3) You need to press dow clutch pedal to the floor when you start your engine or it does not clank.

I learn this from the service guy at Barrier Porsche. No charge.

#Bikes #Cars

Do you really need this site?

7月

31日

http://runpee.com

It is an App for smart phone that show you when to go pee during the movie at theater. It tells you when you can go pee and miss the movie without missing any important story.

Do you really need this?

#Movie

POP is old.

7月

31日

If you are sell using POP as your email service, stop. IMAP is faster, lighter and easier to manage. Even if your email software crashes, your email is intact.

Question you should be asking is how do you migrate to IMAP from POP. Don't just delete the POP account and move to IMAP. You will loose all email in your computer.

If you move to our email hosting service with IMAP. we will help you migrate to IMAP.

#Computer #Internet

The Middle East Conflict

7月

30日

Bad guys took women, children and elders hostage and start shooting good guys hiding behind the hostages. Good guys told hostages to get out of the way or they get shot. Hostages could not get out of their way because bad guys will kill them if they move. So, the hostages are staying put. And bad guys keep shooting at good guys.

Fearing for their lives and people around them, good guys start shooting in between the hostages but sometimes (actually often) hostages are shot and killed. But good guys intention is not to harm any hostage.

Is this action justified?

No, I don't think so. So, is that mean good guys are bad now? That is "No" either. The true bad guys are the bad guys using hostage as a human shields.

So, what is the solution?

Good guys must create trusting relation ship with hostages. Protect them instead of going through them to get to bad guys.

Can that be done?

I don't know and it might be too late. Do not treat hostages as a part of bad guys, but treat them as they are "hostages". Killing hostages is very hard sell to any western world.

#Life #Politics #Society