Frank Uncovers Excellence in Leadership

© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2009

Many years ago I worked together with a manager whose philosophy was that a good worker is recognizable by the emptiness of her/his desk. So every day the manager walked through the offices to ensure that the desks were empty. Every time he did see a desk with something else then keyboard, mouse, monitor and phone on it he just wiped everything with one big swoosh off the desk. All the papers sorted neatly during the day landed on one big pile. Can you imagine how soon afterwards the demand for drawers increased rapidly? And how five minutes before people called it a day they got really hectic—throwing their papers into the drawers. Increased productivity?

My desk has its empty spots and its not so empty spots. Only a genius controls the chaos!

How empty is your desk?

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Frank Kanu on Monday, March 28th, 2005 @ 10:02
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AOL helps itself to AIM content

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I already blogged about privacy on the net - but AOL starts a new round!

Here’s the offending passage from the new AIM Terms of Service under the “Content You Post” section (emphasis added):

Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium.

You find more discussion about it right on geek.com

You better start encrypting everything you send over the web!