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Chrome polishes off Explorer

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From TNW: “Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web’s most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week.” 

How does the largest software maker in the world let this happen?

Poor leadership?  Wake up Microsoft Board…

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NYTimes Reports Foxconn To Make Change

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Apple Supplier in China Pledges Changes After Report Cites Violations

Foxconn, which manufactures electronics for such companies as Apple, Dell, Amazon and others, has pledged to sharply curtail the number of working hours within its Chinese factories and significantly increase wages.

The moves come after a wide-ranging inspection by the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group, found widespread problems — including numerous instances where Foxconn violated Chinese law and industry codes of conduct by having employees work more than 60 hours a week, sometimes for more than 11 days in a row.

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Microsoft’s Bad Move

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Microsoft Banning Corporate Purchasing of Apple Products

Couple of things about this new policy:
1. Apparently Microsoft Marketing has been buying such a dizzying about of Macs & iPads that Corporate had to clamp down. I guess the company’s marketing team does not practice what it preaches.

2.Microsoft being an engineering firm says; screw you marketing…we are the only ones who should be buying the good stuff!

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What a Game!

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After watching the Super Bowl last night…it occurred to me if we all played with such an intensity and focus…we could rise above almost anything and move our team, company or ourselves down the field.

Truth be told it was the first Super Bowl I have watched in many years. It was exciting and interesting as well. As I watch both teams go toe to toe in a very close contest. I noticed that they kept true to the basics. There were no fancy plays, just good clean basics of running and passing. Players seemed to be fully aware of the play on the field. No one person seemed to have tunnel vision. Defense and offense read each other and did what they had to do to give their team the strategic position to win the game.

In the end, the Pats took a risk by giving the Giants a touchdown. The Patriots then pinned their hopes on scoring a touch down with 57 seconds on the clock. The rest, as they say, is history.

Why am I writing this? Why am I so impressed with a game? In business we talk about team all the time. We usually associate that with collaboration. What we forget is that a great team consists of passionate and intensely focused individuals who are working toward a collective goal as part of a strategic plan that completes the company’s mission.

By the way, if you are wonder why I watched the game? I’ve been a Giants fan since I was 12 years old. Yup, that’s my helmet, hand pained by yours truly many years ago.

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An All Too Familiar Sound

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Change is a strange thing. Earlier this evening I was putting my 8 year old to bed. As I laid down next to him, following his bedtime story, a police siren shrieked from a few blocks away. He didn’t toss or turn or even hear it. I barely noticed it myself. When I finally did take note of the shrill, I remembered how as a young boy we would run to the window or out on the porch to find out what the problem was. Now we hardly notice. It’s not like we live in a high crime area. We don’t. It’s a quiet, middle class neighborhood with comfortable homes and yards. Neighbors who work hard and take pride in their children’s achievements.

 

I guess the amount of trouble has increased in our lives. At one time, trouble would make a rare appearance, now it’s familiar visitor. So familiar that it’s high pitched yelp has become the background noise to a normal life. While you and I are not facing trouble we know it’s out there. Surrounding us. Have we really come that far from living in a cave? Tonight I know how that Neanderthal felt when heard the roar of a cave lion in the middle of the night.