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Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card

Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you expect more easy release, but they tend to keep it overly simple. The second item below should be good: Screen Time - Downtime can be configured with a different schedule for each day of the week - A new toggle enables easily turning app limits on or off temporarily And a review of Apple News+:

Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card

Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you expect more easy release, but they tend to keep it overly simple. The second item below should be good: Screen Time - Downtime can be configured with a different schedule for each day of the week - A new toggle enables easily turning app limits on or off temporarily And a review of Apple News+:

Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card

Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you expect more easy release, but they tend to keep it overly simple. The second item below should be good: Screen Time - Downtime can be configured with a different schedule for each day of the week - A new toggle enables easily turning app limits on or off temporarily And a review of Apple News+:

Discussing the common "CIO agenda"

I get asked to talk with “executives” more and more. That’s part of why Pivotal moved me over to Europe. People make lots of claims about what executives want to hear, the conversations you can have with them as a vendor. They don’t have time. You have have to be concise. They don’t want to hear the details. They just want to advance their careers. None of those are really my style, even part of my core epistemes.

Management, as practiced by a young IBM

Of course, there were countercurrents. Managers wanted to control activities. That impetus for control and management of potential risks led to the rise of bureaucracy, characterized by highly defined processes. Generations of executives micromanaged people all the way down the organization while fighting the growth of paperwork and “signoffs.” Such behavior also originated with Watson Sr., who exhibited such contradictory behavior. A vast number of decisions came to him, so many that when his son Tom took over the business in the mid-1950s, one of the first things he did was reorganize IBM to move decision making out of headquarters and into the broader organization.

Assume that rivals will exercise their options

If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and act/protect yourself accordingly: In the Rent-A-Center deal, there was actually a lot of work to do, and it distracted Vintage from the extension deadline. In the Van Halen deal, there wasn’t particularly, so Monk cleverly created a lot of work to distract them, and it (apparently) worked. One lesson here is, keep a checklist of your deadlines.

Assume that rivals will exercise their options

If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and act/protect yourself accordingly: In the Rent-A-Center deal, there was actually a lot of work to do, and it distracted Vintage from the extension deadline. In the Van Halen deal, there wasn’t particularly, so Monk cleverly created a lot of work to distract them, and it (apparently) worked. One lesson here is, keep a checklist of your deadlines.

Assume that rivals will exercise their options

If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and act/protect yourself accordingly: In the Rent-A-Center deal, there was actually a lot of work to do, and it distracted Vintage from the extension deadline. In the Van Halen deal, there wasn’t particularly, so Monk cleverly created a lot of work to distract them, and it (apparently) worked. One lesson here is, keep a checklist of your deadlines.

Assume that rivals will exercise their options

If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and act/protect yourself accordingly: In the Rent-A-Center deal, there was actually a lot of work to do, and it distracted Vintage from the extension deadline. In the Van Halen deal, there wasn’t particularly, so Monk cleverly created a lot of work to distract them, and it (apparently) worked. One lesson here is, keep a checklist of your deadlines.

Assume that rivals will exercise their options

If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and act/protect yourself accordingly: In the Rent-A-Center deal, there was actually a lot of work to do, and it distracted Vintage from the extension deadline. In the Van Halen deal, there wasn’t particularly, so Monk cleverly created a lot of work to distract them, and it (apparently) worked. One lesson here is, keep a checklist of your deadlines.