Looking on my bookshelf today I noticed all the books on software. Counting them, I found that about 90% of them were obsolete. It seems that software books are out of date almost as soon as you buy them because new versions of software come out faster than books can be published.
Looking at […]
I am always skeptical of anyone who has all the answers. Someone who has all the answers is probably working from within a belief system or structure that makes a WHOLE lot of assumptions about reality. In my experience, reality is never that clean. No matter what the structure, it is only […]
My last post dealt with trust in a general sense. One key components of high performance teams is team size. It takes a reasonable period of time for any two individuals to get to know and trust one another. The larger a team is, the less time any two individuals have to […]
Francis Fukuyama’s ground-breaking book, Trust: The social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, shows how important trust is to economic and business development. I read it with great interest several years ago. Since then, I continue to see how important his thesis is. His thesis is this: “Widespread distrust in a […]
Nov. 11, 2005 marks the passing of one of the greatest management thinkers of the 20th century, Peter Drucker. He contributed 35 books and innumerable articles throughout his long life. I have admired Dr. Drucker for decades and have been heavily influenced by many of his concepts. He believed that effective organizations […]