Canuckflack
… Colin McKay has some thoughts about design, data, management, government and oddities … written in Canada!
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Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD. Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.
Liber generationis Jesu Christi
“Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”
Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
Images: British Library
I had a Brooks Brothers 15 1/2 - 35 shirt and we used its front pocket to determine when the Pilot design was “pocket sized” - Joel Jewitt, discussing the invention of the Palm Pilot
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130408043926-7298-early-employees-joel-jewitt-palm
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With all due respect, but don’t you think labeling a colleague “Ms. HOTT” is out of step with today’s times – sexist, no? And no assistant male or female sitting at a board room table should ever be titled “Sexy Assistant”.
I usually get a kick out of the PR graphics on your site Colin, but this one misses the mark.
That’s a valid criticism, Ian. Maybe I should have added some explanatory text to the graphic.
When I sketched this out (some time ago), I was sitting at a meeting with these personality types.
Each individual identified in the picture is meant to represent a real person who has adopted that personality as part of their power play at the meeting, and in the office.
(although it can be seen, as you point out, as sexist)
For the record, the sexy assistant was a guy.
So, if one assumes that the leader of a meeting, organization, etc., stereotypically sits at the head of a table, would the key players in your meeting be the coffee guy, trainee and the PPT god?
Who ran that meeting?
Blowhard ran the meeting.
And sat at the side of the table to pay obeisance to the god of “inclusion” and “participatory management…”
Were you at my meeting yesterday?! Substitute Blowhard II for Sexy Assistant and you’re bang-on. For the record, I was Easily Distracted guy.