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Sounds like management material to us…

By Sharky Freshly arrived boss decides to gauge how well his new 50-person staff responds to change, so he gives each staffer a packet with an excerpt from Who Moved My Cheese?, reports an IT pilot fish on the scene. “It wasn’t the whole book — just 10 or 12 pages photocopied out of it,”…

Unclear on this whole ‘backups’ concept

By Sharky This government agency does lots of time-critical and space-consuming analyses, and with multiple people using each data set, it’s a version-control challenge, says an analyst pilot fish on the scene. “Then the boss called a meeting to tell us his great idea: Every analyst team should place all its files for any project,…

IDG Contributor Network: Whole Foods trying out whole new ways of retailing

By Evan Schuman At a recent industry conference, Whole Foods Co-CEO John Mackey was talking about the challenges of retail competition when he made an intriguing point. Amazon.com is positioned, he said, to subsidize its partner pricing indefinitely, thereby harming competitors by forcing them to sell at lower-than-sustainable prices. To be fair, his broader point…