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Because it’s there…
Fifty days from now, I will be retired and on a plane heading to Washington, DC to start a month-long trek on the Appalachian Trail. I’ve been hiking the AT for about 15 years now and covered a respectable portion of it. But I’ve never been gone for a month, and never by myself. The
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The Bull is Dead.
I bet that got your attention. This is the first line from a well-known story that illustrates the difference between pyramid reporting, and inverted pyramid reporting. Pyramid reporting, also known as academic style reporting, is characterized by starting with a problem statement, elaborating on the background, discussing influencing factors and finally stating the conclusions. When
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You want me to do WHAT?!?!
Nobody likes email retention, especially me. Believe me. No … really. Why on earth would I ask you, a productive researcher with no time for chit-chat, much less time to police your email, to spend time looking at your email, pondering it, and (hopefully) deleting a bunch of it? No sane person would do that.
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NIS Strategic Plan Posted
NIS recently published an updated strategic plan. High-level objectives include: Move Toward a Cloud-First Environment Support Mobile-First Computing Support Research Computing Develop NIS Staff Mature IT Service Management Practices
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Two Things To Do When Leading Change
I was browsing some articles on organizational change and came across this nice summary on Pink Elephant. The statistic that jumped out at me was that 70% of change initiatives fail. The article goes on to assert two main causes for these failures: The change is not started early enough, or is not well managed
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Would love to touch base when you get to Texas.
I really enjoyed reading this. Uncle Tim sent it to me. I plan to move to Fredericksburg by the end…
This was an extremely interesting read. Thanks for sharing. Another song that comes to mind is Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker/ Living…
Hi David. Wow, looks like you’ve travelled a lot of miles (25.7) so far. Sorry to hear that you have…
Very nice!