Image via Wikipedia RealClear Politics highlights an obvious issue; obvious unless you are a journalist or a true believer in government in general or Obama specifically: Would President Obama and the Democrats‘ legislation allow government to come between citizens and their choice of doctors and insurers? Obama promised it wouldn’t. Republicans said it would, and […]
Month: January 2010
SOTU doublespeak. Sad clown is sad.
Image via Wikipedia In the same breath, Obama chastises Republicans as the party of “No” while simultaneously calling for a spirit of bi-partisanship and an end to acrimony. If he were self aware, he’d see the irony, It is a measure of his disconnectedness that he can make those statements without blinking. Perhaps he is […]
Apple, design thinking, nationbuilding
Image via Wikipedia Mike Roberto discusses Tim Brown’s book on Design Thinking here, and thinks aloud about Apple‘s application of the idea. I am a big fan of his work. The unfocus group’s insights become more important to the extent that the Long Tail phenomenon applies to that market/line of business. We are big fans […]
The business of war
Image via Wikipedia A crucial part of force generation is developing, maintaining and supporting industrial base capacity to research, develop, produce and perform life cycle maintenance on crucial equipment. The Defense Business Board just made a series of recommendations on how to approach this issue. Examine the composition of the board and try to predict […]
Reflecting on Heifetz and Hunt on leadership
Image via Wikipedia Reflecting on Heifetz (2009): The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, and Hunt (1994) Leadership:A new synthesis Heifetz et. al. Ch 6 notes (carry over from last week) Heifetz continues to discuss authority’s role in achieving adaptive leadership but draws the distinction between authority and leadership. This separation causes him conceptual problems. He describes […]
Project Gutenberg: 30,000 free classic ebooks
Image by Getty Images via Daylife for goodness sakes, dont spend money on an iPhone app to get access to 23 ebooks when you can get 30,000 free. HT: Stephen Downes http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Related articles by Zemanta Apple Allows Users to Give the Gift of Apps (textually.org) Have You Got Balance? (t4w.blogs.com) Digg’s belated iPhone app […]
Chaos links of interest
Image via Wikipedia Chaos: Links http://classes.yale.edu/Fractals/ http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets/ http://mathforum.org/library/topics/dynamical_systems/ http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~pmat370/JavaLinks.html Books: Chaos: Making a New Science. Gleick, James. The best book on chaos. It has everything—wonderful storytelling, memorable characters, an exhilarating sense of intellectual adventure, and exceptionally good explanations of the main ideas and why they matter. Read this book! Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics […]
A note to John Edwards: choke yourself
Image by bunchofpants via Flickr Why is this clown getting any airtime? Why isn’t he getting the Tiger Woods treatment? I bet he is planning on how he can rehabilitate his career, because he believes he owes the country the value of his special leadership. Here is an interview with his hair. Update: now see […]
leadership in complexity: making the game simple
Image via Wikipedia this is a reflection on strategies of leadership under conditions of complexity Michelle: as your excellent posting on CAS notes, at certain degrees of complexity we have to adopt simpler and shorter term behaviors, and act with care and humility, measuring results and applying the feedback more rapidly in order to evolve […]
leadership in complex adaptive systems
Image via Wikipedia This is a reflection on Heifetz’ model of Adaptive Leadership, a practical prescription from HBS on becoming an adaptive leader in uncertain times The Heifetz model of leadership adaptation requires an ability to develop a theory of action, rules of cause and effect that allow us to diagnose a situation and then […]