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A or B?
Sometimes, you simply have to choose. Do I send my child to this day care or that one? Do I buy this new car…
Relieving the Stress of Others
Here’s a story from the Harvard Business Review about helping other people manager stress (“Leading in Times of Trauma” by Jane E. Dutton et…
The Practice of Managing
Maverick business professor Henry Mintzberg’s new book, Managing (Berrett-Koehler, 2009), is a must read for those serious about management. He bases his book on…
Turning a Tragedy into a Triumph of the Commons?
Recently, the New England Fishery Management Council adopted promising new rules for regulating threatened regional fish stocks. The new rules will over time shift…
The Tools We Need
As a long-time admirer of Donella Meadows’s work, and knowing that she died much too young in 2001, I was surprised and enormously gladdened…
Systems Thinking Provides a Boost to Quality Professionals
The recently published Conference Board Research Report, A Leadership Prescription for the Future of Quality, noted that the quality function and the role of…
Will Obama Walk the Learner’s Path?
These lines, from three American presidential inaugural addresses, are arguably the most famous from the 56 such speeches given since 1789. At the start…
Moving from Knower to Learner
Contrary to popular opinion, learning is not the process of merely accumulating more information. You have “learned” something only when you can produce a…
How Does Malcolm Gladwell Spell Success?
Acclaimed author Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers, The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Company, 2008), is all about patterns and how they can…
Resolving to Stop Re-Solving
Have you resolved to make any changes in 2010? According to RichardWiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, most of us won’t achieve…