Microsoft Innovations: Empowering the Mobile Experience
by Joe on February 19, 2020
Microsoft is a global technology leader, constantly driving innovation and transforming the digital landscape. With cutting-edge mobile applications and cloud solutions, the company enables users to work, learn, and enjoy entertainment wherever they are.
Innovative Solutions for Business and Personal Use
Products such as Office 365 and the Azure platform have revolutionized the way both businesses and individuals operate. Microsoft’s mobile solutions provide seamless access to essential tools, ensuring productivity and connectivity on the go.
Security and Reliability
Security remains a top priority for Microsoft. Regular updates and advanced protection technologies guarantee that users’ data stays secure, whether they’re managing business tasks or accessing personal information.
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Committed to making technology accessible for everyone, Microsoft continues to innovate and grow. To explore the latest developments and learn more about their diverse range of products, visit the official website at Microsoft.
Why give severance to a terminated employee?
by Joe on October 2, 2013
We naturally think of severance when companies downsize, but what about situations where employees are laid-off/terminated/fired/removed due to poor performance or destructive behaviors? Should these individuals receive severance? They weren’t chosen to remain in the job so why continue paying them through a severance arrangement?
Well, lets take it through our new framework for business decisions:
“Given the core competencies of my organization and the assets under it’s control, how can I best direct the organization to serve? Which products or services could we produce that would best enable my community to flourish?”
We need to ask if the employee is a part of our community (yes- they are because you hired them in the first place!), and then we ask how do we enable him to flourish? Do we produce enough revenue to enable us to remedy the employment situation yet enable the individual to have a bit of a runway to find work? Granted, my first response when reading through this framework, was YOU ARE KIDDING ME! Severance for this guy or that guy? I was making the decision about me, and not about the community. So it’s a daily challenge to think differently; but, it’s exciting to know that thinking differently is possible.
What to do when my child does not listen…
by Joe on September 20, 2013
It happens all the time, to each of us parents: our children disobey. They know its time for a diaper change and they run away, they hit us, or they do something you’ve asked them to stop doing. Such is a parent’s life right?
So reading today, I found a great explanation from Mr. Reaves, a father in Fort Thomas, KY, that poetically describes my approach for how I try to treat my son when he chooses evil (like not listening or running away from me):
“For instance, in our home, when one of us chooses evil, the others get to witness two of our basic beliefs reinforced. First, that evil always has negative consequences. It is my job as father to see that those negative consequences are administered consistently and effectively. Second, that redemption is always possible when you turn from evil and make it right.”
What awesome stuff – consequences and redemption. Check out his other great thoughts about helping children walk through tough stuff: What Dad Thinks: 6 Ways to Train Your Child in Evil – What My Kids Read
Oh… and he still doesn’t sit still during a diaper change.
Where I’ve been
by Joe on August 8, 2013
It has been much too long since I wrote anything. I’m not even going to do the math. But, I haven’t exactly been doing nothing. I’ve been doing this:
And trying to teach him as best as I can and as best as his little heart and brain can learn, these things (among a million others – like how to sit still during a diaper change):
- Contribution, not celebrity. — Which my friend Todd so brilliantly described as “In a western culture that seems to value celebrity with no merit whatsoever, we must begin to ask once more “what does it mean to contribute?””
- Proverbs 2:2-4 — “turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure.”
Profit and Maximizing Shareholder Return Fail to Inspire
by Joe on March 27, 2012
Many of us spent 4 years at an undergraduate business school learning the question that we boil business down to is: “What will best maximize shareholder return?“ But over time, I’ve realized that it is a question that fails to inspire and move me, and I’m guessing others, to action. So I’ve spent the last few years exploring how to approach business outside of the uninspiring shareholder-maximization mentality. After years of searching, I stumbled across this:
“Instead of asking…Which choice will maximize my ROI? We ask instead, Given the core competencies of my organization and the assets under it’s control, how can I best direct the organization to serve? Which products or services could we produce that would best enable my community to flourish?”
At first take, I asked how you can ignore profit? Well, you cant. The argument here is that profit is what helps the business attract sufficient capital to continue growing and enabling greater and greater levels of community flourishing and service.
These two compelling questions are inspiring my actions on a daily basis. How would your world change if you focused on these two questions in lieu of maximizing ROI?