I am sorry I don’t get the iPhone frenzy. People have gone ahead and declared this to be the “before iPhone” and “after iPhone” era. I think they are smoking pot. Let’s put things in perspective. Apple expects to sell about a million iPhones in 2008. That’s a good number. But then Nokia sold about half a million phones in just one day in India alone (see news item here). Well, you might say that this is not a fair comparison. Read on…
Archive for June, 2007
To deserve what you want you need a lot of “assiduity”. And what’s assiduity? It’s the ability to sit down on your ass until you do it. Read the other four tenets here…
Avaya Quits Halfway Through Its Transformation Marathon
Published by June 10th, 2007 in organizational design. 0 CommentsI have a hypothesis that sometimes a company running a marathon – as Avaya was doing – gets fatigued and simply gives up. In a real marathon, somewhere along the half-way point, the glycogen stores run out and the mind starts telling you to slow down or stop. If you haven’t prepared for this energy depletion event, it’s very hard to go on. Avaya’s decision to go private is their way of gracefully giving up…
I got back from my vacation a few days back but have been busy catching up at work and at home. This weekend I caught up with my blogfeeds so the Linkroll is back. I’’ll back with some blogposts soon.
