Google/ YouTube

Three Strikes and YouTube out

Here are some important lessons for those of us who use services like YouTube to deliver business content. A friend recently had his YouTube account suspended and can no longer access his “archive” of 900+ clips, many of which are unique business-related videos, created over the past couple of years.

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Risk management: integrity of minor change

Roll-back or roll-over

Change is a risky business and even small changes can induce disproportionate risk, especially if you cannot reverse the change when a problem appears.

Picture credit: Scott Ableman

We may be reasonably good at managing big change and ensure that we have contingency plans to back-out any unsuccessful change, by restoring the status quo ante.

But very [...]

Groupthink: the danger of compromise

Life is about making hard choices, not ducking the issues. Groupthink makes it harder for us to choose properly; it is a delusional process that exploits the members of a group and costs organizations dearly.

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You have probably experienced groupthink during meetings and may have fallen into its clutches occasionally; perhaps despite fairly strong [...]

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