April 13 Daily Directions
The following is presented on behalf of today’s proclaimed Blame Someone Else Day. Click the green calendar to read the adjoining content. And enjoy!
Today in Context
How to Lie (Professionally): “Get a thick marker, and black-line every piece of evidence against you. Corrupt files, blame the truth on a mad fit of typos, or set a magnet next to your hard drive.”
Outsourcing Communication Best Practices Pt. 1: ” If anything can go wrong in outsourcing, chances are, communication is to blame. People tend to take communication for granted and assume that much of it is adequately conveyed through presumptions.”
Internet Self-Promotion: Time Wasted or Well-Spent: “They wonder if time, resources, and energies dedicated to promoting themselves online will ever pay off. And anyone with one iota of experience can’t blame them.”
PR Does Matter, Indeed: “They also say PageRank doesn’t indicate success. They blame low ranking PR values on server problems, bad PR data, or site newness — anything but simply having a low valued web presence.”
Outsourcing + Machine Translation = Failsauce: “Babelfish isn’t solely to blame, however. You get the same problem using Google Translator.”
When You’ve Dropped the Ball: “Then ensure the customer that it will never happen again to start the process of rebuilding the trust that was lost. Just don’t place the blame on specific employees no matter how tempting it is (even if that’s where the blame lies).”
She Just Doesn’t Get It: “What made me seek out blog owners outside of this comfort zone is beyond me, so I’ll blame it on curiosity for now.”
Outsourcing Management: “A lot can go wrong in outsourcing and for whatever reason — nobody wants to take the blame. Yet an important part of project management is identifying risks (even if they’re your own fault) and then devising some way to eliminate them or at least reduce their impact if they can’t be avoided.”
Outsourcing Feedback: “If you fail to properly monitor a project during its development, and if the project isn’t satisfactory, you can’t place all the blame on the coder. Lack of feedback is a participant in faulty work.”
Monitoring Outsourcing: “If you fail to properly monitor a project during its development, and if the project isn’t satisfactory, you can’t place all the blame on the coder. Lack of feedback is a participant in faulty work.”
