Comments on: Five years at McGee’s Musings http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/ "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jon Husband http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4869 Jon Husband Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:59:29 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4869 Thanks for the nod, Jim. This: <i>I remain interested in the challenges of making organizations better places for real people to work in and still believe that the effective use of technology makes a difference. I suspect that large organizations are nearing the end of their useful life and that the evolution toward new forms will continue to be painful and noisy. I worry about leaders and executives who choose to ignore facts and who can’t or won’t distinguish between the theory of evolution and the theory of who shot JFK.</i> .... inspires me, as I have as often as not felt it was more like tilting at windmills than anything else. It will be interesting to watch and see just how long the "command-and-control" philosophy remains in place as the dominant model for efficiency and responsiveness. I tend to prefer "champion-and-channel", as in champion new / innovative ideas (or just what works best) and channel resources to the idea until the concept is proven or crucial ineffectiveness is exposed. Keep on keeping on .. here's to another 5. Thanks for the nod, Jim.

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I remain interested in the challenges of making organizations better places for real people to work in and still believe that the effective use of technology makes a difference. I suspect that large organizations are nearing the end of their useful life and that the evolution toward new forms will continue to be painful and noisy. I worry about leaders and executives who choose to ignore facts and who can’t or won’t distinguish between the theory of evolution and the theory of who shot JFK.

…. inspires me, as I have as often as not felt it was more like tilting at windmills than anything else.

It will be interesting to watch and see just how long the “command-and-control” philosophy remains in place as the dominant model for efficiency and responsiveness.

I tend to prefer “champion-and-channel”, as in champion new / innovative ideas (or just what works best) and channel resources to the idea until the concept is proven or crucial ineffectiveness is exposed.

Keep on keeping on .. here’s to another 5.

]]> By: Ton Zijlstra http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4338 Ton Zijlstra Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:02:57 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4338 Hi Jim, congrats on those 5 years of blogging! Happy to have been reading and conversing along in the last 4 of them :) Hi Jim, congrats on those 5 years of blogging!
Happy to have been reading and conversing along in the last 4 of them :)

]]> By: Buzz Bruggeman http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4337 Buzz Bruggeman Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:31:36 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4337 I am honored to be your friend! I am honored to be your friend!

]]> By: Eric C. Snowdeal III http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4257 Eric C. Snowdeal III Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:56:48 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4257 happy blogversary, jim! happy blogversary, jim!

]]> By: Matt Homann http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4203 Matt Homann Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:27:42 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4203 Jim, that's awesome. Congrats! Jim, that’s awesome. Congrats!

]]> By: Espen http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4176 Espen Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:16:29 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2006/10/23/five-years-at-mcgees-musnigs/#comment-4176 Congratulations! That's tenacity - and a very useful way of blogging. Congratulations! That’s tenacity - and a very useful way of blogging.

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