Answering Their Own Question
15 November 2006
Page 48 of the November 27th edition of Forbes has two short articles that have a definite relationship. I doubt the editor realized it at the time.…
Guru Parthasarathy, Meet Guru Bill
31 October 2006
Straight from the Times of London is another story of American business schools teaching kids about everything except real business. Apparently the…
Engineering Stigmas
20 September 2006
Today's Wall Street Journal reported the results from the latest WSJ/Harris survey of recruiter opinions of MBA programs. The University of Michi…
Tales of Passion and Conviction
2 September 2006
Today while doing some mindless Googling I learned about the passing of one of my college roommates. Having lost contact with him twenty years ago, i…
The Folly Of Automating Waste
23 July 2006
There is more lean nonsense floating around, this under the heading "Aviation Company Soars With 'Lean' HR". The gist of the articl…
Just Start Learning
30 June 2006
Somewhere along the way I learned the basic principle that you can always determine someone's priorities in life by looking at how they spend thei…
Management Bombs Out In Deming
28 June 2006
Some idiot phoned in a bomb threat to Solitaire Homes, a manufactured housing company in Deming, New Mexico the other day. The plant had to be evacua…
Who Really Matters
27 June 2006
CNN recently published a list they called the 50 People Who Matter Now. The 'professional' business community's love of fads, numbers gam…