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Monday, September 08, 2003 ( 10:44 AM ) Steve Is Your Boss a Cookie Thief? It’s your nightmare and their dream job. Jobs taken by managers and executives who don’t have a clue about what they are managing. As you probably know, you can’t manage what you don’t understand, you can’t understand what you haven’t done. The following poem shows what a cookie thief is: http://www.storybin.com/sponsor/sponsor109.shtml You know, the sad thing is most executives will never figure it out. # Sunday, September 07, 2003 ( 1:01 PM ) Steve This past Friday, I had lunch with a colleague at Cool River Cafe in Dallas. It was the same old story, just a different restaurant. A major telecom firm is shipping more software jobs to India. My friend confides that past offshore attempts by this company had failed, but the cost-savings looked so good they were moving forward anyway. It’s almost impossible to influence wide-asleep managers, so let’s focus on a way to create new jobs in Dallas. Many people talk about creating new jobs, but few create a framework that will produce new opportunities. Let me show you how new jobs can be created in Dallas: 1. Just for fun we’ll pump up SMU’s computer science program. Hire several top computer science professors, bring them to SMU, give them a cause--to turn Dallas into one of the top software cities in America. 2. In the computer science program, add classes on creativity and classes from SMU’s world-class business school--focus on how business models work. 3. Add support and infrastructure from the local business community. As you think about this approach, you suddenly realize that this just might work. It has for other regions--ever hear of the Silicon Valley. # |
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