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The Fax Refuses to Die
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Consider what a fax machine actually is: a little device with a sheet feeder, a terrible scanning element, and an ancient modem. Most faxes run at 14,400bps. That is just over 1KB per second -- and people are still using faxes to send 52 poorly scanned pages of some contract to one another. Over analog phone lines. Sometimes while paying long-distance charges! The mind boggles. If something as appallingly stupid as the fax machine can live on, it makes you wonder how we make progress at all. It just goes to show you: Bad technology generally is not the problem; it is the people who persist in using that technology rather than embracing far superior alternatives.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-the-fax-machine-refuses-die-171308
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Management Foul-up Number One
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When companies make money, we assume they are well-managed. That perception is reinforced by the CEOs of those companies who are happy to tell you all the clever things they did to make it happen. The problem with relying on this source of information is that CEOs are highly skilled in a special form of lying called leadership. Leadership involves convincing employees and investors that the CEO has something called a vision, a type of optimistic hallucination that can come true only in an environment in which the CEO is massively overcompensated and the employees have learned to be less selfish.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575285000265955016.html
Filed under: Business Management Office Work
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