When “disaster” strikes: Choices and back-up

Yesterday, our company’s ancient computer died, with it killing the internal systems we use to manage advertising and circulation data and resources.  These systems were old — very old (in the computer space, that is), approaching a decade or even more without upgrading.  As business hard-times hit, they chugged along.  A computer/software consultant tried what [...]

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The lost (and rediscovered) business year: Survival, creativity, values and systems

This time last year, I faced a painful thud.  Our business, that I thought had survived and recovered well from an earlier crisis in the middle part of the decade (you can gain some insights about that painful decline in this blog’s “about” page), actually had reached the point of desperation.  Without drastic, immediate and [...]

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