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Never mind the steak. Where’s the sizzle?
GM pulls out of joint venture with Toyota
Du Fresne on strategic flim-flam
Interviewed by the Marketing Outlaw
What to do about banks that are “too big to fail”
Brenda: It’s not just the “hob by” course what have had all funding cut. Community classes are where:...
Craig Dewe: Thanks again for sharing your insights Jim.
Rob Coup: Jim, it’s worth reading Peopleware by DeMarco & Lister. Their key message is advocating larger,...
Mike Riversdale: Fantastic Jim
Craig Dewe: Nice Jim. I always recommend the strategic plan goes on one page. That way it can go on the wall and actually...
LZawilski: Absolutely agree, ‘mot herhood and apple pie’ fuzzies are often scattered through strategic plans...
Dave S: IBM have a research paper on the use of grains of sand as a storage media. It would give ‘pla ying in the...
Dave S: and my sanity demands it too!
Dave S: Maybe you and me should gather a few friends and go and show them the right way to work cheaper, better, more...
Strings: Absolutely . If it takes more than four hours it’s not a strategic plan! Ah the good old days, when leaders...
Posted by Jim in Vista group, Humour and other stuff, People/places/practices at November 13th, 2008
My Vista lunchmate Jack Yan has just introduced me to the ideas of black libertarian scholar Dr Thomas Sowell, of Stanford University. This quote rang a lot of bells for me:
“… the ignorance of Ph.D.s is still ignorance and high-IQ groupthink is still groupthink, which is the antithesis of real thinking.”
I’ll have to read this guy.
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