The worst things you can do as a manager

Lately, I have been thinking about a couple of management practices that seem (based on my experience of more than 18 years in government) to occur more frequently in government settings and to have significant detrimental effects on employees and the organization. The first one is keeping underperforming employees around when they should be let […]

Happy Birthday, IBM PC!

The IBM PC was announced to the world on 12 August 1981, helping drive a revolution in home and office computing.
The PC came in three versions; the cheapest of which was a $1,565 home computer.
In 2006 dollars, that’s a $3500 computer, folks.
That’s enough to buy you a nicely equipped Mac Pro with Apple Cinema Display […]