Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the better type of improvement is when all the other people improve. That tends to help me improve, too. This is about working with others in a manner that they become smarter and better. Some would describe this as leadership, but often I think of leadership dedicated to the designated leader […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A problem with fact checking is that people write so poorly these days we cannot find the facts in seemingly factual statements. Fact checking and the absence or removal of fact checking has been in the news recently. Some society media outlets have removed fact checking and such for something else called […]

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by Dwayne Phillips There are times when we do some things quietly to minimize the hurt. We should, however, decide whose hurt we are minimizing. Someone has made too many mistakes. We are dismissing the mistake maker. Let’s do it quietly to minimize the embarrassment and hurt of the mistake maker. Well, there is no […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We can’t have both facts and adjectives. Can we? Facts are facts. It is 27° F outside. Adjectives are, well sort of fuzzy. It is cold outside. (Cold to whom? Cold compared to what?) “The fact is, they were aggressive.” Oops. “Aggressive” is an adjective. “The fact is, he is tall.” Well, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Is it alright to declare that we behave erratically and that others just need to watch out for us and be cautious? Recently, while driving on the Interstate, I saw a sign posted on a car: Oh, just declare that we drive erratically, so just watch out for us. Silly, of course. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A different take on the technology roadmap. This story goes back some 25 years (yes, I am that old), but it still applies. There were guys trying to do a technology roadmap that was nice and linear and just right. You know, this year we are using this technology, we will move […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Should we have a meeting? Here is one test to help answer that question. Should we have a meeting once a week with everyone attending? Probably not. We can use a bulletin board to tell everyone this week’s news. We’ll put the news on the computer network of course because we have […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the better thing to do is accept whatever the situation and move to the next step. Person A: It’s not my fault. Person B: It’s not my fault, either. Person A: Whose fault is it? Person B: Let’s accept that it isn’t either one of our faults and move to the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips There are times when a good thing to do is put one or both hands in my pockets before doing something else. In the late 1970s (yes, I am that old), a college professor was working with us know-nothing students in an electrical engineering lab. The experiment of the week involved a […]

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