So many BI flow charts resemble the view out my hotel window in Las Vegas on the rooftop just below: a tangle of ducts, pipes, platforms, valves, and big metal boxes. What got my attention was a bird that had landed on a metal box and died.
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Coffee with “Tiberius”
I ran into one of my first and best TDWI friends this morning. Even after all this time, he cannot yet be named publicly and, perhaps because of that, is free with musings on the industry and other things. We’ve tentatively code-named him Tiberius, after a meeting room at Caesar’s Palace.
This morning he’s thinking of a New Yorker cartoon. Two men at a bar are talking, and one says, “Are you just pissing and moaning, or can you verify what you’re saying with data?”
Our conversations are not always fact based, but we do our best. This morning we did it over coffee and, in his case, a crepe, and in my case a yogurt parfait.… Read the rest “Coffee with “Tiberius””
Blame it on PR
Apparently a true story I just heard from a former boss: Back when he managed Comdex, the giant tech show, he shared a PR manager with a rival VP. That VP often felt short-changed by the PR manager.
At the 2000 Comdex, a reporter got food poisoning at an off-site event and died the next day. My former boss, Michael Goodman, now president of Extra Mile Audience Research, worked most of the day with the PR manager to smooth out the buzz.
That afternoon, Goodman pulled the PR manager aside to warn her the Interop VP was very upset. She had complaining bitterly to him, “She never kills anyone at my events.”