Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips It is an old concept, the secretary or admin assistant, but are we misusing our resources? I remember when there where persons in the workplace called “secretaries.” I remember when we stopped using that title and started using “administrative assistant” instead. I find it unfortunate that we often have other persons now […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Would anyone mind if we simply did this correctly? There are some fields of endeavor where the problem has been solved. The solution is known and many have employed the solution successfully many times. I know we don’t usually do this type of thing here, but would anyone mind if we did? […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Let’s analyze the best value of an old tool and a new one. Consider a tool in frequent use today: the smartphone. It can access the world. I can access my personal and professional databases. I can control anything in the world wide networks that I connect to just about any device. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Schools are for learning. Or are schools for teaching? The two are different. If learning is the goal, this school district succeeded. “High school students crash the WiFi system so the teachers cannot access homework assignments.” The kids at that high school learned a lot. They learned computing; they learned computer security; […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Yes, the technology is here to watch everyone all the time, but do those who have it also have the ability to use it? Each day I see yet another example of the reach of technology. Facial recognition seems to be the most recent target of the they-are-watching-us crowd. Little cameras are […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Deciding quickly can be a mistake. Deciding to delay deciding can be as well. I decide, quickly. That is my temperament. I have decided quickly and poorly on many occasions. I know many persons who decide slowly. That is their temperament. They often decide slowly and correctly. That is, if you only […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We (or at least I) need a word for those little things that give us (me) headaches. The waiter at the restaurant walked by. He had a band-aid on his thumb. “Yeah,” he acknowledged. “I just cut or burned for scraped or something my thumb and put a band-aid on it.” The […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We like to hold really big events. What is their purpose? Who benefits? How might we do them differently? We like to hold really big events where a throng gathers and one person (who is really important) stands up in front and talks. I know we like to do this because we […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Take care how we state the requirements for a database. A spot on the floor often meets the requirements. I attended a meeting recently wherein a senior official with a long, impressive title stood in front of a crowd of several hundred persons and spoke at length (three hours). A major part […]

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