Posted by Ian Holsman
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:37:00 GMT
Email/recorded conversations has let me down twice in about 8 hours.
The first conversation was about what someone said in a email and now is on permanent record and thanks to that i’m in the shit.
The other one caused someone else to get so pissed off he decided to resign.
My thinking is permanence/non refutability/non plausiable denail of email/IM will be it’s downfall and is a hinderance to global communication not a help.
I don’t need anonymity. I need a way to talk/email people so that cant’ forward/CC/record+replay it. so I can be as frank and honest to people as if i were saying it to them face to face, and not 2nd guessing what would happen if this email was forwarded.
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Posted by Ian Holsman
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:48:00 GMT
I’ll be in dublin next week.
if anyone wants to catch up for a beer.. please ping me
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Posted by Ian Holsman
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:14:00 GMT
So when I finished up working at the bank nearly a year ago, one of the discussions I had with my manager at the time was about the new position.
one of his remarks was that a manager you would (and should) lose your technical skills, and he was quite proud on how he has lost his (yes he was a PHB). I compared this to google’s management technical recruitment process (and AOL has also moved this way in my division) that you NEED to be technically advanced in your area in order to succeed.
now obviously the first thought was AOL and google rely on technical skills to succeed and as such they need their managers
to at understand what is going on, but to be honest so do banks. (different areas of technology, but skills none the less).
So my thought for the moment is: are we as an industry moving to where large corporates require management to be have technical knowledge, or are internet companies just exceptions to the rule?
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Posted by Ian Holsman
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:48:00 GMT
to see how good Arkayne’s related article feature is
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