There is nothing more annoying than finding that perfect application on my phone that I can’t use on my computer the same way. I would trade MS Outlook in a second if I could get Nine (or any number of ActiveSync clients) to work on my PC without jumping through a ton of technical hoops…
What issues matter to me?
It has been an interesting political cycle so far and I have a feeling that it is only going to get worse. At this point I’ve lived all political spectrums and I’m now choosing to classify myself as an Oliverian (I buy into the philosophies of John Oliver (yes, the entertainer on HBO)). This means…
In the real world there are no such things as straight lines.
I remember in my first year out of college I was working with our racking vendor to put together a future state plan for a fully built out interior. Step one was to go column to column and measure the actual distance between each because a 1 to 3 inch variance could throw the whole…
“Technology needs to be solved” to move things forward.
I sit in on a lot of calls where technology is a key focus. I’m always surprised at the number of people who believe that the word “technology” is magic. Just by saying “technology” it is as if they expect some wizard to walk in with a tool that does everything for them automatically and…
Causing trouble apparently interests people.
I’ve received more offline comments about my recent post on causing disruption than any post I’ve written before. I’m not sure how many troublemakers there are but there are certainly some that appreciate the concept. Looking at it again I think the big gap that keeps people from being more engaged in this process is…
Internal disruption and choosing to rock the boat.
I cause problems. It’s part of my job. I’m responsible for making sure that we are pushing our solutions forward for clients and giving clients the solutions that they need (even if they aren’t the solutions they want). Often this means I have to take on the role of bad cop so that my bosses…
What is quality in CRE?
Quality is a topic I think on a lot but have rarely figured out how to put down in a clear way. Almost everyone will agree that quality is necessary and important but debates rage over how to define quality. Perfect processes don’t exist. Every human process in the world has some potential opportunity for…
The words you choose to use matter….a lot.
Communication is one of the topics I end up talking about regularly. My job is to help companies make decisions and I need to provide them with lots of information to do that. The exchange of information is often the single biggest point of failure in the process and often it fails because the words…
My time with @geteero so far.
This will be a short review because it’s a very straightforward situation at the moment. Eero does all of the basics extremely well and provides a great platform to build from going forward. The best things I can say about Eero after two weeks: It took less than a combined 15 minutes to setup three…
Sometimes it is hard to keep the reality of today out of a given post.
I try really hard to keep this blog separate from what is happening every day at work. But much like the longer you work for a company the more your personal life bleeds into your business life, daily work situations are trying really hard to escape from my fingers to the keyboard. But this emphasizes…