treking into problem solving

We have a communication problem and no one wants to talk about it so my question is this...if we don't talk about the problem (s) will they just go away? Resolution to any problem and the relationship building is still important. Letting someone know your values, know your interest, show you care, it all adds up to solving the problems and acting with integrity, ethics and caring about the other persons values too...solving the problems can only be through careful dialogue. Respectful of all factors and human components alike.

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.

CEO Speaks, Sage Advice During Turbulent Times

Well, I am teaching a course this fall to about 17 undergraduates, mostly sophomores and juniors, and they did pretty well on the first exam. I asked them if they had seen President Obama on the Letterman show and only a few did. Television may disappear – we are not there yet – it’s still a few years away. It will be interesting to see how all this evolves with technology. These students are leaving their footprints everywhere.
One day I said something about an Etch-a-Sketch and the students just looked at me, and then someone said it is now called a Magna Doodle. I enjoy having older students in the classroom. They have a slightly different perspective, and they get my jokes.

Excerpts from the book.

This is amazing

Digeus has an amazing blog tool SnapIt Screen Capture 3.7 and it is highly effective.
Not sure what other products and services they offer but the blog software is cool!

Humans and creativity is amazing to me. What gifts God gives us is humbling too.

Dallas hotel

STC is a professional organization I am a member of and recently enjoyed the fall conference in Dallas. The OMNI Mandalay Hotel was the place of choice for the conference. What a gorgeous, clean place and comfortable rooms with white linens, down pillows and delicious food.

Customer service was unbelieveable too.

CEO Speaks

This is the last Stone Rings blogs at least for awhile. I am starting a new blog about the book I just published CEO Speaks, Sage Advice During Turbulent Times.

Thanks for rreading this for as long as you have. I truly appreciate the support for technology information seekers and other issues.