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Want to Be the Next Apple? Lose the Bafflegab: Virginia Postrel - Bloomberg
Strategy is not what many people think it is. It is not a fill-in-the-blanks mission statement blathering about how XYZ Corp. will ethically serve its stakeholders by implementing best-in-class integrated sustainable practices to grow as a global leader while maximizing shareholder value. Such bafflegab is “Dilbert“-fodder that generates cynicism and contempt. It is, at best, a big waste of time.
Neither is strategy a declaration that the ABC Co. will increase sales by 20 percent a year for the next five years, with a profit margin of at least 20 percent. Strategy is not the resolve to hunker down and try harder -- what Kenichi Ohmae of McKinsey criticized in a 1989 Harvard Business Review article as “do more better.” Effort is not strategy. Neither are financial projections. And neither are wishes.
A strategy “is a way of dealing with a high-stakes challenge,” Rumelt told me in an interview. “It’s a way around the obstacles or problems in a difficult situation.”
apple  strategy  business  leadership  dilbert  mission 
august 2011 by messofpottage
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
A call to Apple support suggested that I try to reset the System Management Controller.

follow the directions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411 (Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC).

My SD card was able to mount after that...
apple  mac  macosx  reference  smc  securedigital  cardreader  flashcards 
may 2011 by messofpottage
Matasano Chargen » A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features
most significant update in the history of Mac OS X - perhaps in the history of Apple”.
Security  leopard  apple  osx  macosx  analysis 
october 2007 by messofpottage
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