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Office politics

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February 28, 2010  2:06 PM

Focus on making a deal more than wining a deal



Posted by: ITKE
Office politics, Project management, Uncategorized

Have you ever dealt with some managers who all the care about is wining more than reaching a deal? I call this type of management “brute force” management, when some managers try to force their way through by making everyone under them abide by their rules, when they insist that 1+1=3. I...

April 24, 2009  5:25 PM

Business Community loves to cut cost; Cloud Computing will have a future



Posted by: ITKE
Office politics, Productivity

Sometime in 1995 I was talking to a small business owner about the importance of the internet and how will it revolutionize the way we do business, but he thought the internet was just a new toy; people will pay with it for a while and then move on. My views were different, I told him “the...


April 19, 2009  6:09 AM

Dogmas and Innovations



Posted by: ITKE
Office politics, Uncategorized

If it is not broken don’t fix it This is how things are done around here We have been doing this for generations This is the American way In Rome, do what Romans do All the above are common phrases that we are all familiar with, if you notice one thing common to all these phases is the...


February 28, 2009  3:01 PM

Management Information Systems, a bit of history



Posted by: ITKE
Add new tag, m, Office politics, Project management

In the early days of business applications programming, there was little interaction between programmers and other IT staff with the rest of the business units. The business people didn’t understand IT and IT folks didn’t understand the business process. Business people wanted programmers to...


November 13, 2008  11:15 AM

The danger of e-mails



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Office politics, Uncategorized

How long do you think before sending an angry e-mail? Composing and sending an e-mail can take only few minutes but sending the wrong e-mail can have great consequences. In the old days of pens and papers, sending an angry letter or memo would take time, you have to sit down and compose the...


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