Posted on 09/14/2008 5:35:23 AM PDT by plangent
Photoshopped, according to snopes.
Having watched the evolution of the PC and it’s integration into business processes I’ve seen several strategies employed by CEOs in dealing with automation.
The former CEO of a Palo Alto based PC manufacturer and current McCain adviser lived by her laptop. She was on her e-mail 24/7 and once claimed to respond to every message she received. She was also the least effective chief executive I’ve ever worked for.
I worked with a guy in the late ‘90s who would literally scream the answer to e-mails down the halls if someone in his own office sent him a message. If you were going to send him an e-mail it was best to be at least 10 miles away when you did it. His common answer to e-mails from local subordinates was “What the F!#@$ is this!!! You want to talk about it come in here if you got the B@!!s. Everything you sent him was printed out by his admin and either read at home or on the plane.
Most recently I had to manage the Treo to Blackberry transition for the CEO of a major retail firm (yes, the network director had to do this). The reason we had gone to Treos in the first place was the touch screen and the fact that the CEO was a lefty who had trouble with the thumb wheel on the old Blackberries. He would only give me 15 minutes for training and I had to go through about 30 phone calls from his admin before he finally settled down and got used the the track ball. This guy’s strategy is at least simple - any message to long to fit on the Blackberry screen is handled by his admin. He gets upwards of 400 messages a day.
Most CEOs have a love/hate relationship with their technology and all struggle to prioritize and assimilate anything new. Dealing with new technology is just not among their top priorities.
If McCain never touches a keyboard as President I’m good with that. He’ll have lots of people around him to handle the details.
“I am amazed that Obama still looks down on his audience that way. Does he not have media savvy handlers to tell him that it makes him look like an elitist snob?”
Well he probably DOES have a bunch of “media savvy handlers”.... who - to the last one of them - happen to be elitist snobs, as well....
- John
It’s 3 A.M.........
Note the clock on the wall - it’s the “3:00am phone call.”
I’d rather have a President that can’t e-mail than one that can’t talk without a telepromter.
Funny, but it’s a photoshop job.
Preposterious to think Rove would be devious enough to do such a thing.
Besides me and few other Freepers have did some investigation work and found the new campaign advisor to Obama that is responsible for the new tack of their campaign.
He goes by the name: Raral Koveski, A.K.A. McKarl Rovenstein A.K.A. "Magnificent Bastard"
I have to laugh at your post. I was actually watching CSpan this morning and Mona Charon was on with some liberal blonde bloggerchick (Jane something, Hampster?) Anyway, someone called in and brought up all of the candidates education, which schools they attended, etc, with the final point being shouldn’t we elect the person with the best education.
Mona said something to the effect that the caller was a snob, as was the left, but most Americans were not. I thought it was an outstanding moment!
susie
McCain could take a page from Reagan's handbook and run an ad as follows:
Sen Obama wants to make government "cool" again so he can use the government to solve all your problems.
John McCain knows that government is the problem.
The Dems don’t think people with disabilities can lead, such as a woman with children.
From Forbes magazine:
In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.
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