Wireless plus

Termination fee on cell contract are stiff without any reason yet it is all in the fine print...

Wireless is responsible according to science for messing up the bees solar system...they can not find their way home to the hive...

Cramming is very real and resurgent wave is growing for tiny charges the phone companies have on their bills...no answer for where the charges come from...according to the Washington Post cramming can be a very good way to make a living...

The crooks always find a way to ride on the coattails of society...entitlement to be a crooks...the question is who parented these people!!?

wireless and honey bees

Cavaet: I am not a scientist nor is research in nature my full time job, I simply care about future generations. Is there a way to stop the demand for wireless toys?

With some evidence suggesting a correlation to wireless and loss of honeybees are the geeks in the world eventually going to kill off mankind? Without the bees there is no pollination! Without pollination there is no fruit and vegetables. This is serious information to consider.

Listening to the words

Attending a business venue this morning I am always amazed at the poor listening within an audience and a person. Others are talking and we fail to hear the words or interpret the meaning within us vs. meaning intended by the speaker. In business I am sure millions if not billions of revenue is lost every year due to poor listening.

After the key note speaker opened the session for questions someone in the audience asked a question that had been answered during the speech. I was amazed the person had missed the comment. The speech was on energy and we do not have turbines for power in the southeast due to wind verbosity needed to make the turbines produce energy which is 30 miles an hour.

In telecommunication electronic orders have codes for any service to be installed. If one code is incorrect orders (then installations) stagnate for days, weeks and even months if communication does not flow between companies. No communication, no service, no revenue, no application, it is that simple. We all need to become better communicators.

Technology just a different sort

Manufacturers please stop and think...what do packaging engineers and design engineers and geeks have in common? They think consumers don't have brains. Bought a new coffee pot Monday and after washing, drying and cleaning with clear water run through I needed a flash light to read the buttons. There is no stop and go button or on and off
buttons...no words that make it easy to turn it on and turn it off, we have to figure all that out on our own. The design team wanted all the gee whiz components but not have it eligible in a straight forward method.

Why does everything have to have gee whiz? I just want to make coffee. I do like the pre-set features so if we get up at 5 or 6 am the coffee is ready. But I really just want some simplicity in my life instead of difficulty especially in my home? Does anyone understand that?

Writing and the quigmire of words

So often writing is a reminder that words can be intent-ed to convey one meaning and yet another is interpreted. So is telecommunication and all the possible problems associated with installation for access and hardware. An order flows and upon reaching a certain spot is deadlocked with no movement...stopped. Why? electronic orders that flow between carrier and local retail provider or carrier to carrier can have dozens of fields. Each field has a code. The stop? Wrong code in conflict with yet another code on the same order. These problems have a tendency to clog up the process; delayed installations and other communication flowing. So often those issuing the order send an email to "resolve" the clogged order. Email is NOT a way to solve any problem. Telephones are just tools to eliminate distance but it still takes person to person communication, over the phone sometimes, to eliminate the problem (s). Non-verbal language studies convey over half the meaning of language conversations, so how many non-verbal cues do we get from type written words? A pause for thought.

I can not stress this enough. Communication is critical for success in relationships, in corporations between department, in working successfully to the benefit of all, in building bridges between customer and provider. Talk may be cheap but it is also why we have a voice.

Applications again

After almost 30 years in a business one would think there is little non-touched about an industry yet unique challenges are on the horizon. A new application for learning, which is a quest of mine, sought or not, I find learning a love relationship. The brain is challenged into strategic mode, analytical processes surface, creative mode rises and yet another(learning) curve bits the dust...always learning, always a challenge, another feat mastered...or at least lessened to a fraction of the formidable science of selling, consulting and coaching so everyone walks away feeling better and adding money to the end result; company and person. The Great American Dream is alive and well, one only must embrace the negative, ignore that which we can not control, continue to march into positive solutions and be all we can be, here and now.

All that said...this holiday season...for anyone in the reading audience...

My heart goes out to people in need, those without hope, needing food and shelter, abused, neglected, hungry, angry, yet I can not heal those I do not know. My prayer this holiday season is to touch some one's life...someone cares...computer access or not...touch someone in your environment to heal this nation in distress, a nation of people needing to know someone cares. A gentle touch, a kind word, a violation forgiven, to say "I care about you". God Bless all those who read this message.

Technology speaks again

Researching a unique process for an upcoming project I have found a wonderful source
for information. There is nothing so unique and informative as someone with different life experiences then ourselves. Those born into another culture, living in a different country, experiences beyond our scope or focus are rich sources of information. Especially when we need that information to apply to our livelihood. Reaching out to touch another person is extremely rewarding. Recently having the opportunity to hear several people speak that were from other countries and I walk away with my cup filled and overflowing. One such person has began publishing a magazine called 4Love. During the conversation with one of the co-owner he said everyone talks about love and yet few write on the subject. Very true.