E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

It is interesting how quality folks have managed to claim all and every tool from every related discipline as their own. This book is no exception. It is a compilation of many many tools of management, decision making, engineering, design, data analysis and, yes, occasionally even quality. The book attempts to be comprehansive, though it only devotes [...]

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Yesterday I listened to an audio book of Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and must admit I really enjoyed it. Not that this book agrees with my personal values, but aside from excellent storytelling, it has made me rethink and reconsider many of the most important life’s questions. I loved the fact that it emphasised the connection [...]

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This book published almost 200 years ago is the first one to create the argument that the short term focus on the profits has to be balanced with the long term focus on the people. Carnegie, who is allegedly a robber Barron, but in my view simply one of the more brilliant capitalists of his day, builds the [...]

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Over the last few days, I have had a chance to read through Doug’s latest book: The Failure of Risk Management. Once you get past the bitter/angry tone (justifiably so) of that the chapters detailing the bad practices currently employ, the rest of the book is worth its weight in the most precious metal. If [...]

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A friend of mine had me over to watch “Fireproof”. It is actually a fairly decent movie, with a good heart, if you get past the first 10 minutes or so of really bad acting /editing. It is brilliant as a marketing ploy to cross sell lots of other products. But that is not what I want [...]

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