Ever heard of the ‘Fallacy of the Single Cause?’ It refers to the rarity of single causes resulting in particular effects, it turns out the world is more complex than that. Many different inputs […]
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Reviewed – The Testers Pocketbook by Paul Gerrard
I had heard a great deal about this little book. Some who had read it appreciated its premise, some were in fairly fundamental disagreement. If a text generates polar opposites of agreement, then that immediately […]
Lets celebrate! Anyone still out there…..?
Pyrrhic victory. I was reminded of this term a few days ago. It is when winning decimates *almost* everything, so winning is basically not worth the cost exacted to achieve it. I believe I have […]
Reviewed – The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
I’m always slightly sceptical of the phrase ‘timeless’ when it comes to management literature, given the infinite variance of people and the situations we find ourselves in. The Effective Executive was described as exactly that […]
The bigger the rock, the smaller the pieces need to be
You know what I really, really value in a fellow professional in the information technology delivery world? That special, magical ability to decompose a large (and potentially complex problem) into small, simple subtasks. A child […]
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