Apart from the obvious cost-savings and giving the employees better freedom, this initiative also has a lot of other important perspectives.
As a management student, one major challenge faced is the compromise on flexibility during growth. Typically in a startup, the advantages of flexibility, informal communication, etc., are tremendous. But growth often brings in heirarchy, structure and rigidness into an organisation. To have growth and retain the freshness of a startup has been till today very difficult. This is a move towards that. I've seen some videos of this being implemented in a design office in France. There the guys come with a laptop and they have a movable trolley/table which they move to an indeterminate work-place. this way they have better cross-department informal communication channels. This way they do not have any binding with heirarchy or structure. It'll make the organisation a lot more flexible.
Another concept is that of focus, as an organisation, Sun should concentrate on building more computers and not on building campuses and providing good workplaces. - a step towards it.
Most importantly, this goes hand-in-glove with sun's concept of "Network is the computer". there's no point in selling a concept to your customers, if you yourself don't believe in it. This has been practised in Sun for quite long, I believe all fixes go on a huge server that runs a lot of home directories, intranet servers etc., and that gives confidence to ship it to customers.
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The issue here is not what has happened or how it has happened.
The issue here is all about however hard you try, when somebody is prepared to even die, nothing can stop him.
If you look at the attacks in a larger view, the issue is not about cure by attacking those respnsible, its all about prevention.Prevention thro' stricter security, thro' intelligence is only a short term measure.
On a longer term, we need to achieve global peace. This cannot be achieved through bombing people or being vindictive. For every family that's bombed in Iraq or Afghanistan, the survivors will create such problems.
If US had not bombed Iraq or had not given arms to Afghans to fight against Russians, would this have happened? I am definite it would not
have happened... Again now, when they bomb the entire afghanistan, leaving out only some people with "the fire of revenge in their hearts", ain't all this expected? (yeah I know that's immature, but what else can you expect out of them).
My heart goes out to the numerous people killed in the process...
The total number of deaths in Kashmir thro' out the years is probably a huge multiple of the number of deaths this attack caused. All this time, the Internatioal community inclusive of the US has been advising restraint from the Indian side. Its time to practise what you preach, Uncle Sam.
e-books don't smell like old books do. Most of the mystery stuff that you read, are based on old books kept in some corner of a library.... In the case of a e-library, the only aging you can probably see is the version difference. We might have gone from MS word doc Ver 1 to MS Word Doc Ver 10000000.
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Apart from the obvious cost-savings and giving the employees better freedom, this initiative also has a lot of other important perspectives.
As a management student, one major challenge faced is the compromise on flexibility during growth. Typically in a startup, the advantages of flexibility, informal communication, etc., are tremendous. But growth often brings in heirarchy, structure and rigidness into an organisation. To have growth and retain the freshness of a startup has been till today very difficult. This is a move towards that. I've seen some videos of this being implemented in a design office in France. There
the guys come with a laptop and they have a movable trolley/table which they move to an indeterminate work-place. this way they have better cross-department informal communication channels. This way they do not have any binding with heirarchy or structure. It'll make the organisation a lot more flexible.
Another concept is that of focus, as an organisation, Sun should concentrate on building more computers and not on building campuses and
providing good workplaces. - a step towards it.
Most importantly, this goes hand-in-glove with sun's concept of "Network is the computer". there's no point in selling a concept to your customers, if you yourself don't believe in it. This has been practised in Sun for quite long, I believe all fixes go on a huge server that runs a lot of home directories, intranet servers etc., and that gives confidence to ship it to customers.
The issue here is not what has happened or how it has happened.
The issue here is all about however hard you try, when somebody is prepared to even die, nothing can stop him.
If you look at the attacks in a larger view, the issue is not about cure by attacking those respnsible, its all about prevention.Prevention thro' stricter security, thro' intelligence is only a short term measure.
On a longer term, we need to achieve global peace. This cannot be achieved through bombing people or being vindictive. For every family that's bombed in Iraq or Afghanistan, the survivors will create such problems.
If US had not bombed Iraq or had not given arms to Afghans to fight against Russians, would this have happened? I am definite it would not
have happened... Again now, when they bomb the entire afghanistan, leaving out only some people with "the fire of revenge in their hearts", ain't all this expected? (yeah I know that's immature, but what else can you expect out of them).
My heart goes out to the numerous people killed in the process...
The total number of deaths in Kashmir thro' out the years is probably a huge multiple of the number of deaths this attack caused. All this time, the Internatioal community inclusive of the US has been advising restraint from the Indian side. Its time to practise what you preach, Uncle Sam.
e-books don't smell like old books do. Most of the mystery stuff that you read, are based on old books kept in some corner of a library.... In the case of a e-library, the only aging you can probably see is the version difference. We might have gone from MS word doc Ver 1 to MS Word Doc Ver 10000000.