Archive for September, 2006

Detroit Teams - Season Update

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Hockey
- Detroit Red Wings
1st Place – Regular Season
Eliminated Early in Playoff’s

Basketball
- Detroit Pistons
1st Place – Regular Season
Eliminated by eventual Champions, Heat

- Detroit Shock
CHAMPIONS

Baseball
- Detroit Tigers
1st Place – Regular Season(?)
(10 games remaining)

Football
- Detroit Lions
Last Place?

Am I leaving somebody out? I realize that Detroit fans were deeply disappointed by the shortcomings in the playoffs of the [...]

Consultant Value

Friday, September 15th, 2006

(A) Elements that CAN contribute to value:
Availability, Expertise, Creativity, Organization-Ability, Communication-Ability, Passion, Flexibility.
(B) ACTUAL Value to clients:
___ (What the client needed - and VALUED) is done.
Problem:
Consultants fail to grasp that ALL of (A) Above are TOOLS to be used to ACCOMPLISH (B) (Client’s need). Where it get’s complex: MISSING something in (A) may [...]

Changes

Friday, September 8th, 2006

What has changed the most:

Element
Was
Is

Education

Email, CD-Rom Learning, Word-Processing

Communication
crappy connection, conversations RUSHED becuase it was “LONG-DISTANCE”, Snail-Mail
EMAIL, VOIP, Cell-Phones, Blackberries, CHEAP long-distance

Entertainment
Buying a record, TAKING Film to the Processor (unaware of what we would see when the roll was developed), Watching what was on one of the 4 or 5 channels available on our TV
Today, [...]