Spoken by a guy who has never started or run a business in his life. When you compare the level of input by a small business owner to what “help” is provided by others. What a pandering fool. There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to […]
Category: management
Future Force in the news
A nice write-up in the Army Times on the Future Force game I designed for the Command & General Staff College. It was cool to see my family commenting in the discussion session. Related articles Congressional negotiators reach tentative deal on payroll tax cut, jobless aid … – Fox News (foxnews.com) Economic Growth Gives Lift […]
The importance of alone time: solitude and innovation
A long snippet, but it has important things to say about solitude, inquiry, creating new knowledge, innovation and scholarship: the importance of “alone time” from a thoughtful article Games, consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister compared the work of more than 600 computer programmers at 92 companies. They found that people from the same […]
The irreplaceable tax cheat Tim Geithner
That there are 36 Obama aides who owe back taxes is great news for the country which had just learned at the State of the Union speech that Tim “Tax Cheat” Geithner wouldn’t be around for a second term as Treasury Secretary. We now have an expanded pool of candidates to take over from Geithner, […]
Waiting for superman: the sad story of American schools
Heartbreaking condition of our schools. The nation will go into debt to fund the military industrial complex, but we cant fund kids to go to quality schools. Sold our soul for oil and stock options Watching the lottery draw to see which 100 of the 500 kids gets to win the success lottery by being […]
Who should bear the risk? who should be the judge of value?
If we have decied that our banks are too large to fail, then how about the following idea? 1. When an individual and a bank agree on a loan, its based on a shared estimate of the value of the home. 2. When a bank decides to underwrote a speculation then both the individual and […]
A most excellent resource for doctoral students struggling with their dissertation writing
Focused coaching for a price that’s a real value if you know the dollar value of your time. My personal experience with doctoral writing was that you have to learn how to get out of your own way when it comes to writing. if you listen to the voice of criticism inside your own head, […]
MG Fuller: over/under was 1
I won the office pool on when MG Fuller would lose his job. The over under was 1 day. I picked under. He knew precisely what the consequences would be. Such are the consequences of telling the unvarnished truth in public
The 4 part learning journal
My dissertation research involving planning and managing a network of related Participatory Action Research projects. For most of these I was doing theoretical, methodological and practitioner literature reviews and background readings to supplement the group actions. At the same time I was maintaining an individual learning journal to record my reflections on the research processes […]
What some might call pandering, others call…stewardship?
real political courage and leadership on display to expand the entitlement program even further in California. That’s real stewardship of the public trust and treasure right there