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Truthiness through Transparency

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

A lot of information on the web lacks contextual information we need in order to judge its truthiness. If someone says something to us, we know that person’s identity.  Our knowledge of that person’s credibility and expertise on the subject is part of the context that helps us interpret what we hear. If [...]

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Dotted Line Considered Harmful

Saturday, March 1, 2008

“Dotted Line” reporting — the practice of representing multiple reporting as additional accountabilities for a single position with a dotted line on an org chart — is a bad idea. Here’s why:
Not that multiple reporting is bad. Multiple reporting — being accountable to different people for different aspects of our jobs — is [...]

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