An interesting thread just appeared on one of the list serves that triggered the pain in several of my old war wounds. The cause was a consultant arguing that theory and making distinctions between systems types were academic tribalism. They said that a consultant should ignore all of this and just do whatever worked. Now […]
Scott Adams started in on the subject on the 2nd August but the best has just appeared on line. This information brought to you courtesy of my Apple Widget which, with one touch of the F12 button gives me a daily dose of this collection of modern archetypes
Don’t worry I have not joined an end of the world cult, but the Doomsday Book has just gone on line . I was sitting at the computer this morning, debating religion with Euan Semple. He had just finished two bottles of red wine (I assume in company) and I had woken up and was […]
One of the really depressing things about being on the circuit of conferences and seminars is to hear the same old tired solutions being proposed time and time again even when they have demonstrably failed in the past. I was reminded of one today. When faced with something that wasn’t working the consultant presenting, by […]
Is nothing sacred? Wooky Hole – one of the main tourist attractions near where I live has suffered badly. Firstly one of their Daleks was kidnapped: you just have to read the ransom note. Secondly, if that was not bad enough, a Dobermann called Barney guarding their toy exhibition went wild with Elvis’s Teddy Bear. […]
Two changes to the blog – firstly if you make comments and register on typekey then you no longer need to be moderated and your post will appear immediately. Also we have changed the RSS feed so that you get the whole of the post if you come in that way. Thanks to Euan for […]
I’ve been engaged in a debate on a list serve with someone who has been using De Bono’s water and rock logic distinction to privilege dialogue over debate. I had made the innocent comment that debate produced good discussion and generally explored new ground in an interesting way, whereas dialogue tended to bland consensus if […]
Another good post from John Maloney on the deadly (literally) impact of Powerpoint, and the title of this is his … The Actuality Findings on PowerPoint and Columbia were done by two blue ribbon review committees in 2003 and 2005. They were the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (2003) and the Return to Flight Task Group […]
I was settling into my office/study in the Institute this morning when my next door neighbour Tom popped in to say hello and we ended up talking for an hour or two. He used to be in the RCMP and we were talking about how pedophiles have managed to exploit the blogosphere, a Washington Post […]
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