Tech companies are ready to take over core civic duties.

I have a deal: you donâ(TM)t call/interrupt me during working hours for minuscule matters, then Iâll help you anytime if something urgent and important pops up. anyone who follows that is happy, otherwise I have enough power to ignore you - including during office hours. donâ(TM)t waste my time, then iâll not waste yours.

nice trollpost ;-)

I have been in a similar situation, and what worked very well for me (just as keywords, just google it or get a book): 1. make the work, priorities and non-work visible through visual management techniques (Kanban Board etc.) -> see Lean 2. explicitly limit parallel work, think of your team as a laser not as a lightbulb 3. talk with your team about how different decisions are made, try to keep the decisions with the experts (them): see delegation poker or delegation board from management 3.0 4. They want to make the right things, really: Think about all information they need to do make the right decisions, (from business perspective, not limitied to tech) and provide them with that. Trust them. 5. remove non-work items. Meetings, calls, e-mails, etc. my most happy and productive current team does not own a phone, and has received less than 1000 mails in one year, including notifications - 8 people.

You might want to have a look at Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) as a concept.

Introduce Kanban + CI -> CI + Kanban Makes "plans" superfluos -> Kanban Makes it possible to use Good Team input

Revision numbers just don't market well....

Doesn't that company have an employee population of > 300K? If so, the percent of suicides is (16/300000)*100 = 0.0053 %. As horrible as suicide is, that seems to me a small percentage.

Agreed. The more tools and techniques developed by any government to help inform citizens of any and all ideas is a good thing. The free flow of information and debate is important in order to come to the correct conclusions about current events, technology, systems of government, foreign policies, fiscal mandates, freedom, etc.

There ARE successfull boycotts in history, for example the boycott of south african products by european customers. Brought down a whole Government.

* yeah, I'm borrowing Slashdot terminology. But what the heck, it kind of works.

No. I saw your comment.

Just another libtard who rocks like Rain Man repeating Faux News, Faux News, Faux News. Just admit you're a communist to your shrink and be done with it.

That's a fair analysis about history and how news is disseminated. I'll even concede that comedy is a powerful method of making a point. Maybe there popularity, especially with youth, is based on the seriousness of the subject matter of the world today. Some of it's even scary and their comedic medium may be a way for youth to cope. I see the problems of the world today and disagree with how these clowns treat it. However, maybe I should be grateful they're engaging the youth with these important ideas, even if they do so with a bias.

Could be. My interpretation of the Daily Show and the Colbert report are of my own opinion. It may be I'm out of touch and dull or am a part of the demographic that has moved on or both. To be honest, those guys were never funny to me. I will say their popularity is troubling when such a large population of America's youth enjoys getting their political news in the form of slap stick humor. In contrast, the older generations (especially WWII) were engaged in current events on a more serious medium. I wonder if the difference in news content vs. how the generations received their news as young adults represents how America has been dumbed down. Or maybe previous generations had no sense of humor, were bland and too serious. Personally, I find myself respecting the ways of the old timers. Stewart and Colbert are juvenile to me. To each their own, I guess.