Archive for the 'War Stories' Category

In one of our big department gatherings at a former employer, a senior manager under whom our organization had recently been re-organized laid out these stages or levels of influence.  She drew it as a pyramid, and if you like to look at it that way, fine with me… I’m going to describe it in [...]


I’ve had more than a few documentation/customer support issues over the past year that resulted in extraordinary frustration.   It seems that more and more, business are designing closed channels, such as telephone, email, web-based support, FAQs, and chat, for supporting their customers.  These systems provide the illusion of being open and dialectic, but I don’t [...]