This is where I'm a huge fan of RSS/Atom. Subscribe to whatever info you want without any intermediaries deciding you don't need the content. "These aren't the tsunami warnings you're looking for. Move along."
There are plenty of services that will push feed updates to your PDA just like an email, so the differences are moot.
(Granted, it is a pull rather than a push, but a 10-minute polling rate on an emergency info feed is reasonable enough. It probably takes that long for their mail server to deliver 5000 emails anyway.)
Fred Pryor Seminars used to offer a classroom course, now online called "Management Problems of the Technical Person in a Leadership Role."
Some of the key lessons they drove home when I took the seminar some years back was this:
1) The more you advance in management, the less you need technical skills, the more you need administrative and people skills. This "Peter-Principle's" many technical people right out of what they were good at.
2) A technical lead focuses on planning, leading, originating ideas, and controlling a project. A good manager needs to envision rather than plan, empower rather than lead, create a positive environment rather than originate ideas, and coach rather than control.
3) Technical people rely more on skills to accomplish their objectives. Managerial people rely more on relationships (people skills) to accomplish their objectives.
You might not agree with some of the underlying philosophy, but the points are still worth considering. Some of the fundamental aspects of what makes you a good geek may have to be tossed in order to make you a better manager.
If you check the original press release, you'll notice UT says the 30% efficiency might be realized "with further improvements in efficiency". The reporter for CTV missed that little nuance.
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This is where I'm a huge fan of RSS/Atom. Subscribe to whatever info you want without any intermediaries deciding you don't need the content. "These aren't the tsunami warnings you're looking for. Move along."
There are plenty of services that will push feed updates to your PDA just like an email, so the differences are moot.
(Granted, it is a pull rather than a push, but a 10-minute polling rate on an emergency info feed is reasonable enough. It probably takes that long for their mail server to deliver 5000 emails anyway.)
Some of the key lessons they drove home when I took the seminar some years back was this:
1) The more you advance in management, the less you need technical skills, the more you need administrative and people skills. This "Peter-Principle's" many technical people right out of what they were good at.
2) A technical lead focuses on planning, leading, originating ideas, and controlling a project. A good manager needs to envision rather than plan, empower rather than lead, create a positive environment rather than originate ideas, and coach rather than control.
3) Technical people rely more on skills to accomplish their objectives. Managerial people rely more on relationships (people skills) to accomplish their objectives.
You might not agree with some of the underlying philosophy, but the points are still worth considering. Some of the fundamental aspects of what makes you a good geek may have to be tossed in order to make you a better manager.
If you check the original press release, you'll notice UT says the 30% efficiency might be realized "with further improvements in efficiency". The reporter for CTV missed that little nuance.