Image via Wikipedia 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine my current leadership skills. I will describe and reflect upon a recent curriculum project that I was in charge of at the US Army command and Gen. staff College. I will use a lens of the Bolman and Deal four Frameworks to evaluate […]
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making your own way, following your dream
Image by Getty Images via Daylife http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/jobs/13boss.html?fta=y another story of brave women in business, making their own way, on their own terms. very cool, and…math! inspiring advice i’ve shared with my daughters Related articles by Zemanta Is the iPAD the future of magazine publishing? (matei.org) Flash Slideshow (socialactions.net) NYTimes.com: Polk award for anonymous video of […]
The argument for organizational diversity
Image via Wikipedia the argument for diversity is that when the rate of change is too large to “control” and/or when your system is subject to environmental changes that are non-linear/disruptive, you cannot use a “most efficient” command and control system, because you find the world moving on without you and you have no slack […]
Gelernter on the Internet and mastery
Image by Todd Barnard via Flickr One of my heroes is David Gelernter. He is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven). His research centers on information management, parallel programming, and artificial intelligence. The “tuple spaces” introduced in Nicholas Carriero and Gelernter’s Linda system (1983) are […]
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 […]
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 […]