Month: June 2006
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Perfectly Synchronized
Let’s hope that the developers responsible for “perfectly synchronized” contacts at Chronos aren’t the ones responsible for spelling on the web site…They fixed this one, the one I told them about for SOHO Contacts, but there is still one screwed up on their SOHO Calendars page. Guess Adobe should put spell check into Photoshop.BTW, if…
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A kludge is just a kludge
It’s all well and good to define a kludge as using a band-aid to attach a box to the side of the box that’s affixed to the main system with chewing gum and duct tape, but that doesn’t do much when the time comes to design a solution to a system problem.Bob Lewis
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Strength
Unfortunately, in life, our strengths can become our weaknesses. Just as the dark side of charisma is narcisism, the dark side of innovation is fraud.Sherron Watkins, the accountant who warned Enron Executives that something was rotten, Time, 5 June, 2006
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Leadership
A humble leader listens to others. He or she values input from employees and is ready to hear the truth, even if it is bad news. Humility is marked by an ability to admit mistakes.Sherron Watkins, the accountant who warned Enron Executives that something was rotten, Time, 5 June, 2006