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Male analysts should be more like women, that is. When a woman listens to another woman’s problems, she lends a sympathetic ear and actually comes to understand the problem. When a man listens to a woman’s problems, he is rarely actually listening. Rather he is trying to figure out […] It’s important to keep one’s skills current and to seek constantly to improve the way one does things. With that in mind, I have been brushing up on BPMN 2.0 recently and taking a course by BPMN guru Bruce Silver. As a result I have tidied up the diagrams I produced for the series of […] The Blackberry is supposedly a great communications tool of the 21st century. The truth is that it is not a communications tool. It is a distraction device. This device is the solution that to allows us to receive our emails wherever we are, whenever we are. But what was the need that required this solution? […] There seems to be very little in the modern world that encourages us to stop and listen to the violin. Our politicians tell us that incessant growth is good, when nature tells us that incessant growth is, well, unnatural. At work we misuse the word “deadline” to overemphasise the importance of […] |