I think I understand now why kids get hooked on MySpace. As soon as they build up a decent network of friends (and I hope these are "real" friends, not some 55-year-old freaks pretending to be 12) there is a sense of addiction to find out what's happening within the circle of friends: who met who, who did what, who wrote on which wall, what music they hear or book they read (if in fact kids still ...
I'm going to speak at our conference in Sao Paulo next week, so will spend a few hours in the air during the next couple of days. But I didn't think that it would be that quick from Brazil to Germany, and at the same time take forever for the short hop to Hamburg. According to my Lufthansa itinerary, on the return flight, they will transport me from Guarulhos to Frankfurt in no time (literally), t ...
Just talked to someone who was looking for advice on their mission statement. Not for the company, mind you, but for their department, which was the data warehousing department! Wow, I thought, never heard of individual missions that would go that deep into an organization. Since I find mission statements (and particularly the huge amount of work that goes into finding one) utterly useless, I coul ...
OK, I know I haven't been very active on this blog in the recent past. Quite a few have complained that the last post is months old, and I really don't have many excuses, other than that things were really busy over here lately. I wish I could say that I've been watching television most of the time. Not quite, but I wanted to say that this Joost idea is really how TV should be. It's like TVoIP, on ...
Just returned from our Business Intelligence Summit in London, the biggest and the best ever, according to the attendees. And while I felt exhausted and brain-drained every evening, I believe I still can largely remember what I said during the countless meetings with clients, vendors, and members of the press. That's why I was kinda surprised when I received the press clippings with quotes that I ...