Helping a friend

Over lunch today the discussion was "what is bandwidth?" Trying to explain a complex industry and the matrix of fiber, ring topology, diverse routing, acronyms, carrier switches, points of presence, data/voice configurations and all that over lunch. Confusing stuff for the unexperienced...remembering when I was solving problems for a carriers clients...they were clueless about orders, provisioning, process, methodology, outside plant, engineering, work orders, flow and most of all their inability to communicate internally and certainly externally!

Fortune 500 companies are the worst at communication as well as some of the government agencies including military. Battle is one thing, electronics within the carrier world is a different animal entirely. Understanding the basics about human communication is so simple, if we just DID it...

Technology and Social Structure

Technology and Social Structure when considering where we currently are today.


I see three issues in the market place, the social media places, the social interactions:
1) Are we losing the relationship?
2) Are we losing the unspoken communication i.e. non-verbal language because the percentages change depending on the author but non-verbal language makes up a tremendous part of our intent, our feelings, our beliefs all through our body languare.
3) Gadgets are gadgets...A young entrepreneur I know told me they're business is all about the relationship. His words "we are a relationship businesss and I think we are going back to relationships in business." People are so much more important than things.

Just some thoughts to share.