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dlr5288
dlr5288
11/30/2017 8:06:20 PM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
And it’s hard because that’s where i get a lot of my information from. Some days I’ll wake up and go right on Facebook and see what the news is for the day. Definitely hard to trust it all the time though...

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Kishore Jethanandani
Kishore Jethanandani
11/30/2017 6:32:16 PM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@Joe Stanganelli: Email has its limits and sometimes it helps to pick up the phone and talk. Better still, use Skype because then you can follow the body language. Whats more you can have multiple people join the conference. Half of human communication is about body language, tone, inflections, and such like. 

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batye
batye
11/30/2017 6:18:24 PM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@dlr5288 yes, it becoming process where you have to check and recheck everything trying to sort out correct info/truth... and it no longer easy or simple... sad reality we living in this days... 

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vnewman
vnewman
11/30/2017 11:25:19 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@Ariella - I read that quote awhile back and posted it in my office - almost in protest to my boss who turned every single task into a "team" issue.  In fact, she opened every email with "Team" even though there were only 2 of us in the department!  After awhile I started to resent not being seen as an individual.  

I'm an only child and extremely independent and self-reliant.  I'm not really a team-player. Of course I will coordinate and cooperate when I need to depending on the situation but I prefer to produce work on my own.  My liberal arts education did not emphasize teamwork as it is extroardinarily difficult to measure individual performace based on tasks/assignments produced by a team because clearly a few individuals end up doing most of the work and carrying the the rest.  

The United States is a very individualistic and competitive society.  I get the push to collaborate more, but I think it's gone to an extreme now.  Why not value the contribution of the individual when appropriate? 

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dlr5288
dlr5288
11/30/2017 11:14:31 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
Yes exactly! It’s hard to completely trust the media these days. I do think they have moments of truth and fact in them. However, it’s hard to tell the truth from the elaborated moments.

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vnewman
vnewman
11/30/2017 11:12:56 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@JohnBarnes - Well it is an interesting premise.  I would have thought the opposite - that bringing people together in the group encourages "GroupThink" behaviors and stifles innovation a bit as people become afraid of expressing dissenting opinions.  I guess it depends on the corporate culture and environment.  

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Ariella
Ariella
11/30/2017 9:00:09 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@JohnBarnes I didn't read your link, but having read a lot about what goes into creativity and different approaches, I would say that the "offices=interaction=creativity" school of thought only works for extroverts, and the "office=death" would be the position of many introverts-- particularly when subjected to open office plans. 



On the introvert side, we have Susan Cain, who quoted the following from  Steve Wozniak's memoir iWoz (pp. 73-74) in her book Quiet:
 Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me – they're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an invention's design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee. If you're that rare engineer who's an inventor and also an artist, I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. You're going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you're working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.
 
 
The flip side is the argument made by extroverts that forced interaction leads to synergy and greater creativity. Now introverts can also get ideas from others, but they do need to think through how they want to adapt them on their own.
 
 


 


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Ariella
Ariella
11/30/2017 8:53:46 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@Michelle You're right about a lack of transparency in academic hiring, though for adjuncts much of the hiring just boiled down to having a class open that needed an instructor and the instructor who did it the last time aroudn was not available. This particular case I'm thinking of was a digital publication -- not any of the ones related to this board, of course. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
11/30/2017 5:54:42 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@vnewman - I love it! Sometimes I think IT people are some of the worst with customer service. That or they are the best. There seems to be few who exist in the middle. A few weeks ago I kept having issues logging into my bank account, for a week straight the only way I could get logged into my bank account was to change my password. I finally called to complain and the lady said, "Well, ma'am, passwords are case sensitve." Like this was my first time working with a password on a website and this was supposed to be news to me. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
11/30/2017 5:46:43 AM
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Re: ...and as We Are Focused on "Digital Transformation"....
@Ariella - Yeah, commute is something else entirely. It's actually a big reason why we're trying to move out of Denver and to a smaller town. Anymore it seems like "rush hour" is a thing of the past, and one should expect traffic at all times of the day. Even when I work overnights I hit traffic going into work from time to time. It's almost worse in the middle of the night because you aren't expecting it and didn't plan for it - I shouldn't say that. I do now. So I look up traffic on my phone as soon as I wake up, to decide if I need to book it out of the house or if I can proceed with my normal schedule. 

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