Been perusing Executive Leadership. Jaques says about our work being important: The simple fact is that managerial organizations have become the most important of the social institutions of the modern free enterprise democratic society. Consider their impact. In the economically developed nations anywhere from 75% to over 90% of those who work for a living, do so for a wage …
The Oral Culture of the Professional Intellectuals: How Consultants Can Learn
If professionals have this higher form of knowledge, how it is best transmitted? Most firms want training — “how to” lessons. But what growing professionals need is learning opportunities. My wife used to be a professor (before retiring early) and we still hang with young professors. We were at one’s house yesterday for lunch (roast chick with fresh bread: mmmmmm!) …
Elliott Jaques
Why the hell hasn’t anyone ever told me about Elliott Jaques?! This stuff is gold, like seeing the world from the air for the first time.
SQL phreaking
Phreaking. Phreaking. Phreaking.
Business Consultants vs Professors: Death Cage Match!
Business Consultants and Professors do mix a bit: you get professors becoming consultants or doing consulting in the 20%. (You have to do 80% of your time dedicated to the university, I’ve been told, but you can use the other 20% to do what you want.) And consultants often teach a class or end up just professoring after making their …
Power of Mediocrity: Being Great Takes Risk
You’re never going to burn bright when your goal is to not get your fingers burnt.
Software Requirements and Knowledge
The big “Aha!” for me was the these are all tied together.
Student Evaluations Are Useless In Professional Training
It’s much like asking a happy, satisfied and content married couple why they are happy: they discover that there is no reason at all and it all falls in.
Yes, Virginia: IT Doesn’t Matter
It’s not a question of whether to spend or not spend.
It’s about what really matters.
It’s the people, people.
I’ve never agreed with anyone who says that “People are our greatest resource” because: 1) if you have to remind us it probably isn’t true and 2) I resent being the equivalent of a printer.
Why You Hate Your Consultant (part 1)
“He’s a know-it-all blowhard!”