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Apparently you must take a Journey of 1000 steps in order to manage your business information successfully. From the title alone- it sounds like quite the wild journey. Maybe I should switch my major to... business?  Unfortunately, The Journey of 1000 Steps does not live up to its name. It turns out that you do not need to take a physical journey of 1000 steps, instead it is a metaphorical journey that describes the various technological and systematic changes that happen in order to manage your business info. I can't speak for everyone, but I know that I would rather climb the highest mountains and swim in the depths of the darkest seas to find the perfect information management system- but the world we live in is a real let down.  The Journey of 1000 steps is apart of the '10 principals of successful information management' that is found in the chapter  Organisations as Communication Systems in the  Organisational Communications Text. Information manageme...

     This week, our class read a chapter from 'HBR's 10 Must Reads: On Communication' called  Change The Way You Persuade . It highlighted the strategies used to persuade different groups of people when they are organised by personality type. The types of personalities outlined in the chapter are the charismatics, thinkers, skeptics, followers and controllers. Armed with the wisdom of this chapter, you can essentially 'tailor' your speech to persuade anyone, as long as you can find out which type of personality they belong to. While I agree that this strategy could be a useful tool in persuasion, I think that we have to be wary of generally categorising people. When we organise people into types, we could deny their agency.      I am not discrediting this chapter- however, I think it is good to consider how typography has affected people in the past. Human beings can be flexible thinkers, and categories tend to be very scientific an...