Archive for 2009

Global complexity, electronic immediacy, and systemic risk.

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

The complexity and the scale of interactions in an electronically enabled global economy, is a djinii beyond putting back into the box.

The Savvy Entrepreneur’s BackPocket MBA, Part 1

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Models and ideas for the entrepreneur, learned at the cost of quite a bit of matriculation and some teeth

Project Management Tools: The Subtle Flaws

Friday, October 30th, 2009

The alarming momentum of Microsoft’s Project blinding us to its profoundly incorrect premises.

Social Media, and Your Scared New World

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Avaya maven Christian von Reventlow gave us a heads-up on Eric Qualman’s new book on “socialnomics”, whose stats should create a knot in your stomach

Strategic Context: Perfect Answers, Wrong Questions

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Relevance of stepping back for context and perspective in negotiations and everyday work situations.

Is Unreasoned the Same Thing As Unreasonable?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Not everything the human being does is reasonable; but it does have its reasons for every thing it does. Here, we try to develop some practical takeaways from recent insights of articles in neurology .

Frames and Mirrors

Friday, June 5th, 2009

In 1987 few of us saw the proliferation of programmed trading vibrating into a collapse. Should we have seen in 2007 how cantilevered derivatives were quickly straining beyond load limits and quickly into a global complexity?

There is a delicate art to a consulting job.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The author recounts the tragedy of truth-telling in consulting.

Peace, Liberty and Humanity

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Profiling is often unconscious and instinctual, our limbic survival mechanism for the jungles and urban back alleys.

A Better Search Engine than Google?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

New search engine favors relevancy more than simple currency, and uses an elegant and innovative interface.

The analyst’s acuity. A humorist’s irony. Hearing the silence between the notes. Seeing both object and space, in minimalist and in Japanese art. Holding to the values beyond conflicting goals; reaching for the larger frame beyond the crisis. Spotting the patterns, navigating the chaos. How to think, how to manage.

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