Austen often features card games and parlor games, such as whist and backgammon. One might think that she would use these games to illustrate strategic
Early in the twentieth century, the English adventurer Ernest Shackleton set out to explore the Antarctic. Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian, had only just become the
Two interesting examples of Historical Accidents from the book: The keyboard design on most typewriters is a case in point. In the late 1800s, there
Accurate estimates help avoid schedule-stress-related quality problems. About 40% of all software errors have been found to be caused by stress; those errors could have
The Book How the Mighty Fall gives a great analogy for Companies and their health: On a cloudless August day in 2002, my wife, Joanne,
Vision has become one of the most overused—and least understood—words in the language. The word vision conjures up all kinds of images. We think of
Beacon of Light In the 1931 novel Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the glow from an oil lamp in the window of a lone
The book is a life-changing book. I recommend it to everyone. One of the parts that is really insightful from the book is this: It
I was reading The Tools of Cooperation and Change, a Harvard Business Review article, and was fascinated by this example of a very strong culture:
Great example from the book Fooled by Randomness: One can illustrate the strange concept of alternative histories as follows. Imagine an eccentric (and bored) tycoon