tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post819059147960556377..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Quality or PR?Yaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-11850279370020821372009-05-02T06:34:00.000+03:002009-05-02T06:34:00.000+03:00Maybe you're looking at it the wrong way Yaacov. Q...Maybe you're looking at it the wrong way Yaacov. Quality PR does beat bad PR. <br /><br />We used to have an old saying in the sales business. You can invent the world's greatest product but the world still won't beat a path to your doorstep. You have to get out there and sell it. <br /><br />Cheers, GavinGavinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-31032162112094397082009-05-01T20:31:00.000+03:002009-05-01T20:31:00.000+03:00in ordinary office wars quality does not win for a...in ordinary office wars quality does not win for at least two reasons:<br />1. quality takes real work. If you want to solve a problem in quality style it takes a lot of minute tinkering, a lot of thinking and a lot of often quite boring toiling. Bosses who prefer that to the simple "oh we just have to ..." are quite rare and will never make it to the very top themselves because they tend to be bad at "oh we just have to ..."-easy-fixing also.<br />2. whoever delivers better quality than normal in his/her environment makes all colleagues feel uneasy because only as long as all operate on the same level of qualification they may feel reasonably safe from often quite rude demands to invest time and money in schooling and self-improving. Therefore it is a very reasonable strategy from their point of view of ridiculing the one with the superior or wider spread abilities or aspirations. So if you are not able to combine quality with intrigue or other power pushing strategies it is best to bow to their majority which the smartest thinker and hardest worker I ever encountered actually did, thereby exchaning a well deserved real career for peaceful if kind of humiliating working hours.<br /><br />All in all I have seen in almost 50 years more windbags than solid ones make it and I still do not quite know how the solid ones could have changed their ways to get their well deserved rewards. <br /><br />Anyway I keep trying to solve that riddle ...<br /><br />rgds,<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-81962869404872182732009-05-01T19:07:00.000+03:002009-05-01T19:07:00.000+03:00Quality never beats public relations. Microsoft i...Quality never beats public relations. Microsoft is the proof. Their bug-riddled, insecure software nevertheless runs most of the world's personal computers.<br /><br />That's why I can't understand why the Israeli government can't get its act together in hasbara. The other side has been winning the hasbara war for many years. Michael Oren may end up being an extremely effective spokesman, however.yshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592998197322068828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-74516105503049025972009-05-01T18:25:00.000+03:002009-05-01T18:25:00.000+03:00This is the next book that you must read:
http://...This is the next book that you must read:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515/<br /><br />It will fill in the gaps (in a <I>lot</I> of things).<br /><br />אם תרצה לשאול את זה ממני תגיד ואהיה בקשר אתך. אני גר לא רחוק ממך. שבת שלום - דודDavid Boxenhornhttp://www.rishon-rishon.comnoreply@blogger.com