Victor Rozek
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As I See It: Pretexting
September 25, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read more“Pretexting” is defined as: A) Invading a country under false pretenses; B) Telling your spouse you’re going to the store for a quart of milk and stopping for a quick beer on the way home; or C) Hiring a lot of lawyers to give the appearance of ethics and objectivity. (For the purpose of this pop quiz ignore the fact that attorneys are paid not to be objective and that lawyers are to ethics what politicians are to truth.) The answer could probably be any of the above, but if you picked “C” you’re a winner, or in Hewlett-Packard‘s
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As I See It: Corporate Tithing
August 28, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIn 1973, Wilt Chamberlain published the first of two autobiographies, titled Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door. It was a masterful title, seeking to normalize three things that were rare in the early 1970s–being simultaneously tall, black, and wealthy. But “normal” is a relative concept and, like a small number of athletic phenoms of his generation, Wilt was one of those “average” guys who skewed all the averages.
Lacking a context, words like “normal” or “average” become meaningless modifiers that aim for precision but offer none. “Normal temperature,” for example, is ambiguous without citing
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As I See It: Corporate Tithing
August 28, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIn 1973, Wilt Chamberlain published the first of two autobiographies, titled Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door. It was a masterful title, seeking to normalize three things that were rare in the early 1970s–being simultaneously tall, black, and wealthy. But “normal” is a relative concept and, like a small number of athletic phenoms of his generation, Wilt was one of those “average” guys who skewed all the averages.
Lacking a context, words like “normal” or “average” become meaningless modifiers that aim for precision but offer none. “Normal temperature,” for example, is ambiguous without citing
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As I See It: Corporate Tithing
August 28, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIn 1973, Wilt Chamberlain published the first of two autobiographies, titled Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door. It was a masterful title, seeking to normalize three things that were rare in the early 1970s–being simultaneously tall, black, and wealthy. But “normal” is a relative concept and, like a small number of athletic phenoms of his generation, Wilt was one of those “average” guys who skewed all the averages.
Lacking a context, words like “normal” or “average” become meaningless modifiers that aim for precision but offer none. “Normal temperature,” for example, is ambiguous without citing
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As I See It: Biology and Technology–the Uneasy Union
August 14, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreLegend has it that the King of France had a problem. Too many people to kill and too little time. So he commissions a fellow named Joseph-Ignace to invent an expedient way of dispatching the assorted criminals, heretics, and revolutionaries who are deemed enemies of the state. Joseph-Ignace sets to work and, using a Scottish apparatus as a model, creates a device originally called the Louison (no doubt a sardonic tribute to Louis XVI), and presents it to the King. But, alas, Louis is busy with affairs of state and the contraption is moved to some neglected corner of Versailles
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As I See It: Biology and Technology–the Uneasy Union
August 14, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreLegend has it that the King of France had a problem. Too many people to kill and too little time. So he commissions a fellow named Joseph-Ignace to invent an expedient way of dispatching the assorted criminals, heretics, and revolutionaries who are deemed enemies of the state. Joseph-Ignace sets to work and, using a Scottish apparatus as a model, creates a device originally called the Louison (no doubt a sardonic tribute to Louis XVI), and presents it to the King. But, alas, Louis is busy with affairs of state and the contraption is moved to some neglected corner of Versailles
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As I See It: Biology and Technology–the Uneasy Union
August 14, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreLegend has it that the King of France had a problem. Too many people to kill and too little time. So he commissions a fellow named Joseph-Ignace to invent an expedient way of dispatching the assorted criminals, heretics, and revolutionaries who are deemed enemies of the state. Joseph-Ignace sets to work and, using a Scottish apparatus as a model, creates a device originally called the Louison (no doubt a sardonic tribute to Louis XVI), and presents it to the King. But, alas, Louis is busy with affairs of state and the contraption is moved to some neglected corner of Versailles
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As I See It: Productivity and Relationship
July 31, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt has become an axiom of American life that the more successful you are in business, the less likely you are to have a successful relationship. “The job” is often cited as the villain in relationship failures but, more accurately, it is the single-minded dedication to the job that leaves little time for the demands of partnership. But if jobs can destroy relationships, then the loss of a relationship can also effect a person’s ability to perform on the job. People in the throes of dissolution are usually pained, distracted, and performing at less than optimal levels. Simply stated, productivity
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As I See It: Productivity and Relationship
July 31, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt has become an axiom of American life that the more successful you are in business, the less likely you are to have a successful relationship. “The job” is often cited as the villain in relationship failures but, more accurately, it is the single-minded dedication to the job that leaves little time for the demands of partnership. But if jobs can destroy relationships, then the loss of a relationship can also effect a person’s ability to perform on the job. People in the throes of dissolution are usually pained, distracted, and performing at less than optimal levels. Simply stated, productivity
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As I See It: Productivity and Relationship
July 31, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt has become an axiom of American life that the more successful you are in business, the less likely you are to have a successful relationship. “The job” is often cited as the villain in relationship failures but, more accurately, it is the single-minded dedication to the job that leaves little time for the demands of partnership. But if jobs can destroy relationships, then the loss of a relationship can also effect a person’s ability to perform on the job. People in the throes of dissolution are usually pained, distracted, and performing at less than optimal levels. Simply stated, productivity