What have we accomplished? Walmart v. Sears & Roebuck

I’m reading Matthew Stewart’s Management Myth (which is uneven and grumpy, but thought-provoking) and thinking about one of his central points: that we have made little or no progress in the understanding of management in the last 100 years.  It seems like this question is usefully divided into two questions: are today’s organizations more effective [...]

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This post was written by Rob on November 29, 2009 Comments (0)

Portal to high quality writing

I try to read as much high quality fiction as possible and think its at least as useful in really understanding people as sociology or psychology or most of what gets written about leadership development.  People think of themselves and make sense of their lives in narrative terms — everyone is the protagonist in the novel that [...]

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This post was written by Rob on November 28, 2009 Comments (0)

How can a blog be that good?

I really don’t know how a blog can be as good as Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed.  Reliably fascinating.

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This post was written by Rob on November 28, 2009 Comments (0)