Have the detractors of Elliott Jaques ever bothered to read his work on Requisite Organization and Stratified Systems Theory (SST) before they condemned it?

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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.

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More on Seligman’s What You Can Change & What You Can’t:
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 & Daniel Kahneman (”Delusions [...]

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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 [...]

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McCall, in The Lessons of Experience (1988), cites the following as the Top 5 job assignments to produce learning:

Project / Task Force: limited duration assignments to complete either a goal or solve a project. I would imagine that special projects are what he is talking about and not the “project-oriented” organization where everything is projectized.
Line-to-Staff [...]

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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.

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