On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Petr Swedock wrote:
With regards to Peter Drucker... his sagacity lies in a deep understanding of the history of his field and long observance of such (some sixty years!). Jack Welch is hype. I don't
True, re. Drucker. Jack Welch is a bit more than hype - General Electric is a heck of a business success story (even if some of its environmental practices have been questionable). Not too many companies have quite the track record of GE - and Welch was clearly behind a lot of that success. He's also trained a lot of people.
think we're in an equivalent place in the history of our field where any-one can, definitively, say, either from long study (Drucker) or manufactured hype (Welch), what works best, or -perhaps more importantly- what underlying misconceptions and mistakes fuel operations on a daily basis
there are probably a lot of lessons that can be extracted from other operational contexts - electric operations, air traffic control, emergency response, military command and control Miles ************************************************************************** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategies Program 617-558-3698 fax: 617-630-8946 mfidelman@civicnet.org http://civic.net/ccn.html Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!" **************************************************************************