Jinn of Quality and Risk

I used to work at a company where the vision was change the game and win(!) — not only was this not particularly inspiring, but I tried to impress on them that this kind of statement encourages cheating... to no avail. Employment advice of the month: avoid immature Americans (sorry, but relevant specification) who believe that anything goes is good business sense. Everything is a competition to Bill [Gates], and every competition has a winner and a loser. Microsoft people have always been encouraged to see the game, not the consequences, and to win the game even if winning this way makes no sense. Let me give an example of this behavior. In the early days of Microsoft, one of the popular games was to see how late the boys could leave work for the airport and still make their flights. These weren't people who were habitually late, they were playing a game. The eventual winner was Bill Gates, of course, but to win he had to abandon his car at the departures curb. 

A lesson in how easy things are for determined terrorists. The driver left the car for 30 minutes in order to have lunch (can you picture that?). The vehicle was quickly found... empty. Overall, I have always been puzzled by how few terrorist attacks we have suffered in the West. Föraren av den vita Volvolastbilen parkerade vid lunchtid på Torsgatan i centrala Stockholm. I bilen fanns, enligt transportfirman, 1 200 kilo hagelpatroner fördelat på 15 pallar som skulle levereras till en vapenhandlare. När chauffören kom tillbaka efter en halvtimme var bilen borta. [Svenska Dagbladet]