Have the detractors of Elliott Jaques ever bothered to read his work on Requisite Organization and Stratified Systems Theory (SST) before they condemned it?
What Prices Would Look Like If We Had Tied Booze Taxes to the CPI
For example, beer was originally taxed in 1951 at US$9.00/barrel and was taxed at US$18.00/barrel in 1999 (federal taxes only). If the US Congress had written an inflation-adjusted tax, it should have been US$55.88/barrel in 1999.
Depressives and Reality
More on Martin Seligman’s What You Can Change and What You Can’t: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement : Depressives are incredibly realistic. I mean incredibly realistic. In turns out that a realistic understanding of one’s skills and chances codes incredibly well with either having depression or future depression. HBR had an article on this last year by Dan Lovallo …
What You Can Change & What You Can't
I went to the library here in town, which has a great selection of business books, to start some reading I needed to do on Chris Argyris’s action science. A reviewer on Amazon suggested a book by Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, as the second book in a learning series. When I looked online before I left the house, the local …
Top 5 Job Assignments That Produce Learning
Not every posting is equivalent to build great managers. That’s pretty clear to even the densest of us (me). What’s not is which of the quality postings will produce better learning than others. Morgan W. McCall, in Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the Job (1988), cites the following as the Top 5 job assignments to produce learning:
How Berners-Lee Finally Built Hypertext By Taking It Back 30 Years
There were lots of more interesting and much more robust systems that provided better access to knowledge. But they didn’t have Berners-Lee and his peculiar mix of vision and practicality. That mix was uncommon, and for innovators to be successful with bringing technology to change the world, they have to believe that they work for a greater good.