Victor Rozek
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As I See It: Net Reality
May 30, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreThere is a tug-of-war going on between giants. On one end of the rope, telephone and cable companies like AT&T and Comcast; on the other, software and search engine providers like Microsoft and Google. Both ends of the rope are manned by armies of lobbyists with pockets laden with cash. The venue is Congress; the issue is whether to maintain or dismantle what is popularly known as “net neutrality.” The prize is control of the Internet.
If the combatants are mammoth, so are the stakes. Three hugely important issues surround the fight over net neutrality: Who makes the
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As I See It: Net Reality
May 30, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreThere is a tug-of-war going on between giants. On one end of the rope, telephone and cable companies like AT&T and Comcast; on the other, software and search engine providers like Microsoft and Google. Both ends of the rope are manned by armies of lobbyists with pockets laden with cash. The venue is Congress; the issue is whether to maintain or dismantle what is popularly known as “net neutrality.” The prize is control of the Internet.
If the combatants are mammoth, so are the stakes. Three hugely important issues surround the fight over net neutrality: Who makes the
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As I See It: Betrayal
May 15, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreCorporations find it hard to think of China as being populated by actual human beings. China is not viewed as a nation, or a people, or even a system of governance. Through corporate eyes, China is, first and foremost, an enormous market that is therefore populated by needs. Being a supplier of “needs” is problematic to the degree that it focuses on the object of the need and ignores the humanity of the needy. When commerce abandons conscience, market share trumps social impact, profits take precedence over scruples, then rules are bent and statutes are circumvented. The more repressive and
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As I See It: Betrayal
May 15, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreCorporations find it hard to think of China as being populated by actual human beings. China is not viewed as a nation, or a people, or even a system of governance. Through corporate eyes, China is, first and foremost, an enormous market that is therefore populated by needs. Being a supplier of “needs” is problematic to the degree that it focuses on the object of the need and ignores the humanity of the needy. When commerce abandons conscience, market share trumps social impact, profits take precedence over scruples, then rules are bent and statutes are circumvented. The more repressive and
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As I See It: Betrayal
May 15, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreCorporations find it hard to think of China as being populated by actual human beings. China is not viewed as a nation, or a people, or even a system of governance. Through corporate eyes, China is, first and foremost, an enormous market that is therefore populated by needs. Being a supplier of “needs” is problematic to the degree that it focuses on the object of the need and ignores the humanity of the needy. When commerce abandons conscience, market share trumps social impact, profits take precedence over scruples, then rules are bent and statutes are circumvented. The more repressive and
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As I See It: Fearless Leaders
April 24, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreYour name is Henry McKinnell and for the past six years you have been struggling on the job. By exacting corporate standards, where results are the measure of intentions, there is not much in your performance that demonstrates anything but a steadfast intention to get by on mediocrity. Secretly, you’re tired of all the pressure and weary of all the complaints. It would be nice just to walk away, to leave the mess for someone else to sort out, but retirement is so uncertain these days.
You close your office door, open your desk, pull out your retirement folder and
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As I See It: Fearless Leaders
April 24, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreYour name is Henry McKinnell and for the past six years you have been struggling on the job. By exacting corporate standards, where results are the measure of intentions, there is not much in your performance that demonstrates anything but a steadfast intention to get by on mediocrity. Secretly, you’re tired of all the pressure and weary of all the complaints. It would be nice just to walk away, to leave the mess for someone else to sort out, but retirement is so uncertain these days.
You close your office door, open your desk, pull out your retirement folder and
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As I See It: Fearless Leaders
April 24, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreYour name is Henry McKinnell and for the past six years you have been struggling on the job. By exacting corporate standards, where results are the measure of intentions, there is not much in your performance that demonstrates anything but a steadfast intention to get by on mediocrity. Secretly, you’re tired of all the pressure and weary of all the complaints. It would be nice just to walk away, to leave the mess for someone else to sort out, but retirement is so uncertain these days.
You close your office door, open your desk, pull out your retirement folder and
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As I See It: Women
April 10, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreThere were rumors that Margaret Thatcher was actually a woman, but they were never proven to my satisfaction. She wasn’t called “The Iron Lady” for nothing. She often seemed hard and unsympathetic, and stubbornly belligerent as only people who are convinced of their own superiority can be–sort of like Ronald Reagan without the aw-shucks charm. I recall being disappointed, but this was the 1980s and I was naive and actually thought that having women in positions of political power might soften the world.
I felt the same disappointment in the workplace. The ascendancy of women to positions of corporate power
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As I See It: Women
April 10, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreThere were rumors that Margaret Thatcher was actually a woman, but they were never proven to my satisfaction. She wasn’t called “The Iron Lady” for nothing. She often seemed hard and unsympathetic, and stubbornly belligerent as only people who are convinced of their own superiority can be–sort of like Ronald Reagan without the aw-shucks charm. I recall being disappointed, but this was the 1980s and I was naive and actually thought that having women in positions of political power might soften the world.
I felt the same disappointment in the workplace. The ascendancy of women to positions of corporate power