Work
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Greatness Can’t Be Planned: Grand strategies may be futile
No plan survives first contact with the enemy Helmuth von Moltke The plans are nothing, but the planning is everything Dwight Eisenhower I haven’t seen…
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Effective Mess: The garbage can model of organizations and the fractured entanglement of AI
Chaos always defeats order because it is better organized Terry Pratchett A few weeks ago, I shared a pointer to a podcast about the internal…
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Personnel as Policy: Hyman Rickover’s thoughts on management
Despite all the research done on management best practices, all the articles and reports and books that have been written, despite all the experience accumulated…
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Country Club Work: My work setting in some ways resembles a country club, but my work is more interesting than golf
I am lucky: I can treat work like a country club. I can go there when I like to. It’s a ten minute drive. I…
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Management Consulting: My life working 60 hours a week on things I didn’t care about
A consultant is a guy who borrows your watch and tells you what time it is Howard Gossage I used to work for a large,…
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Monday Notes
For the team I manage, I’ve instituted a 60-year-old management technique. Monday notes are a system for keeping track of what everyone is working on,…
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