natural ceilings
By brendan at 7 November, 2011, 12:10 pm
An odd thing I noticed a long time ago when I was I in the Army was that most of the Lieutenant Colonels I met used to give me a really bad time, and were unpleasant to work with. I accepted this as I assumed that as a young Lieutenant, I was forever mucking things [...]
Read More >>The 10 Principles of War
By brendan at 7 November, 2011, 11:56 am
Around the start of my career in the late 80′s, Eastern thought was very big in the workplace. There was a growing awareness of Japanese solutions such as Kanban and Keiretsu. Management books such as Miyamoto Musashi’s – The Book of 5 Rings and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War were massively popular as books [...]
Read More >>unknown, unknowns
By admin at 10 November, 2008, 9:58 pm
I’m currently reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [pls link to ] . Its a fascinating book that discusses why the improbable seems to happen a lot more than people expect. There was a section in the book that talked about the military and how they talk about “Known, Unknowns” and “Unknown, Unknowns”. [...]
Read More >>So What?
By brendan at 5 July, 2008, 4:14 pm
So I am laying in a ditch, in the rain, its two o’clock in the morning, I haven’t actually been to sleep yet and haven’t washed in a couple of days, there are practice mortar rounds being dropped around us, and someone’s yelling in my ear “SO WHAT?” I am miserable. The question is a [...]
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