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Too Many Notes
VeraSage Founder, Ron Baker has often used Snow White and Seven Dwarfs to illustrate the problem of applying efficiency to knowledge work. “A LEAN six sigma guru would have advised Walt Disney to make Snow White and the Three Dwarfs as it would have improved efficiency by over 50 percent,” he intones. Recently I was [...]
Hey, I’ll Take It (a victory for on premises)
In July, I wrote a post for this blog decrying the use of the phrase “on premise” to describe traditional software that is deployed at the customer’s location. I posited that this should rightly be referred to as “on premises” with the final s in tact. Late yesterday, there is news of a victory of [...]
My Interview of Peter Wolf of Azamba
I am pleased to present the second (of what I hope will be many) interviews with professionals who are on Ed’s List. Once again, these are firms that offer only fixed price agreements, have eliminated timesheets for all professionals, and offer a service guarantee. This interview is with Peter Wolf of Azamba Consulting whose purpose [...]
On the inanity of Elizabeth Warren’s now famous quote
Sorry my progressive friends, but Warren’s quote is nonsense. It ignores the most basic principle of a freer (not free) market – that wealth is generated on both sides of the vast overwhelming majority of transactions. Her quote implies a zero-sum thinking about the economy. It is false and I believe dangerous. It implies that [...]
Adieu Simply Partnership
On Saturday, September 24, my friend and and former Sage colleague of mine, Rob Johnson, delivered the closing luncheon keynote at the last Simply Partnership Conference at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Jennifer Warawa, the newly minted vice president of partner programs and channel sales for Sage Small Business Solutions, and her team, in [...]
Today Is Value-Pricing Sunday
OK, not exactly, but if there were such a designation, today would be the day. This is the Gospel read in all Roman Catholic Churches throughout the world. Matthew 20 The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning [...]
The Diamond Planet
A recent cosmological discovery got me thinking once again about the what George Gilder and others term the materialist fallacy. From a Reuters report from last Thursday: Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far denser [...]
For the record, it is “on premises”
As the computer industry continues to evolve into more of a cloud centric model, I want to officially express my concern about the confusion between the words premise and premises. It is my understanding that a premise (singular) is a set of one or more declarative sentences (or propositions) in a logical argument. Whereas a [...]
Live Twitter Feed at Summit 2011
I have just learned about a cool technology that we (Sage) will have two 60” plasma monitors running a live Twitter feed of all the Sage Summit 2011 tweets. The screens will look something like this: Very cool!
ET HORA LIBELLUM DELENDA EST!
In ancient Rome, during the Punic Wars, Cato the Elder is said to have ended every speech he delivered before the Roman Senate with the phrase, “ET CARTHAGO DELENDA EST” (and Carthage must be destroyed!). He did this without regard to the subject of his speech. It is in this spirit that I will begin [...]
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Ed Kless
Corporate Iconoclast
Ed Kless is the senior director of partner development and strategy for Sage Business Solutions. He is a frequent contributor to industry publications, including the Journal of Accountancy and Harvard Business Review, and has spoken at many conferences worldwide on project management, pricing, and knowledge workers. A senior fellow at the VeraSage Institute, he lives north of Dallas with his wife and two children and ran for Texas State Senate in 2010 and 2012.
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