In a recent flurry of emails about something else with a variety of folks, Jack Fallow discussed why he thought that the executive levels were called a “collegium” by Elliott Jaques. Fallow, who was CEO of GasWorks in the UK, believes that the nature of the work at level 5+ meant that you couldn’t have [...]

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One of the risks of allowing comments on any site is that you can be hacked. As an old *nix user who has administered Apache for “a large Swiss Bank”, I normally feel competent to avoid the script kiddie attacks.
Little did I know that on one of my other servers, the hosting company had [...]

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Another in my belated series of summaries of the GO Society conference in Toronto, Ontario.

There was a special plenary-style session on “Ethics and RO” after dinner Tuesday night. It was an interesting discussion, partly because there were definitely different value sets in the audience. If it got recorded, I doubt that it would be useful: [...]

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Mohit Kishore, an always interesting perspective, published an article in The Hindu Business Line — “Leaderless groups - a case against hierarchy“. (He republished it in his blog.) It’s interesting in light of some of our recent discussions, especially at Toronto. A few thoughts and responses to it.
Many of the cases that he cites are [...]

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We’ve been having problems with the comments. Basically, you had to be a registered user to comment. Since that hasn’t really reduced the amount of spam that hits here (it staggers the mind) I’ve gotten that turned back off. It wasn’t meant to be on in the first place.
User error again.

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