My girlfriend saw the latest book that I’m reading, titled “Real Leaders Don’t Do Powerpoint!” and wondered why that was the case. She’s used to using Powerpoint as a teaching tool, where the slides replace the sketches and point form lists that teachers used to write on the blackboard. I told that, unfortunately, the way [...]
Just because lots of people are saying the same thing doesn’t make it right. That’s the problem with the open & democratic realm of Twitter. I’m not advocating an elitist rule-by-experts world, but Twitter to me demonstrates how ludicrous things can get when you have lots of people with just a little bit of knowledge [...]
While everyone acknowledges that the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009 was far less severe than everyone had planned for – and indeed far less severe than it first appeared when it claimed lives rapidly in Mexico – you would think everyone knows about the pandemic. I would have thought that only people who lived under [...]
We live in an age of rapid, nearly-instant communication. Emergencies depend on the rapid exchange of information between those who are on-scene and those who can support them, between those who have information to protect others and the public who needs that information to keep safe and help themselves. Internet technologies are among the fastest, [...]
When it comes to human behavior and human preferences, there is no one best way to do things. Taylorism is fine and dandy for automatic production in factories, but as a framework for thinking about the world, “the one best way” is a sure way to business disaster (or at least sub-par performance) and an [...]
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