Flagstaff Mountain fire, 12 miles south of our home. Started with a lightening strike, like the Fort Collins fire and the fire in Colorado Springs. Listening to the news when the Fire Coordinator was briefing the press and mentioned the "project management" aspects of coordinating 800 fire fig...

The answer of course is a resounding yes. If we can calculate something we don't have to rely on hand waving, references to populist articles that do their own hand waving, or at least references to dead people who did the hand waving before. The very notion that a stranger is going to spend go...

There is lots of talk around about changing the world, replacing traditional management with "new and improved" management, creating a new paradigm for managing organizations. Much if not most comes from theorist or one-trick pony advisors. Here's a concept that was reverse engineered from obser...