“HOW MANY ROADRUNNERS WILL YOU DELIVER THIS WEEK?” asked Leonardo. “Eighty-two,” the voice on the phone replied. “The contract specifies one hundred forty.” The distressed voice said, “The drives are titanium gluttons. We’re doing our best. The Russians…” “I don’t want your best. I want one hundred forty Roadrunners every week, as the contract stipulates.” […]
How many books have been published and classes taught on project management? Yet, we have too many projects that are “Red”, “Pink”, or “Yellow” rather than the “Green Light” projects and products we celebrate. A city in Michigan switches from one water supply to another and experiences elevated levels of lead in their drinking […]
Edmund Burke, an eighteenth century promoter of responsible human liberty, opposed the French version of Liberté and consequently suffered many insults and rebukes. In England, the French version of liberty was also popular and to many Burke was more reactionary than libertarian. Likewise, George Washington sought to prevent French Liberté from invading America, and was chastised by […]
Imagine proposing Monet or Picasso as art realists—the reaction one expects when asserting that J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of The Rings”, notwithstanding elves, goblins, wizards, dragons, is radically realistic. Don’t be fooled by Tolkien’s archaic forms of speech, jaw breaking names for people and places, or dense song-making, as this story is more realistic […]
Those who live only for pleasure become cynical in middle age. A cynic has been defined as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. You blame things, rather than self. If you are married, you say: “If I had another husband, or another wife, I could be happy.” Or you […]