by chriscurnow | Jul 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
Just came across Taegan Goddard’s site. For those of you who like to keep up with trivia from the US political campaign, here are some recent comments he attributes to Democrat nomination Kerry’s daughter Alex: Top three things said by Kerry’s...
by chriscurnow | Jul 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
This PBS Frontline program re-broadcast on the Australian ABC program Four Corners on Monday night is chilling viewing. It follows on from our commentary on NASA a few days ago where we observed that an organisation can become poisonous. NASA, at least has high ideals...
by chriscurnow | Jul 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
Images of Organization – Gareth Morgan Morgan presents a methodology for analysing organisations using the notion of metaphor. He argues strongly that developing metaphors "create ways of seeing and shaping organizational life." After a brief overview...
by chriscurnow | Jul 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t caught up with it, BOSS magazine has a nice roundup of news from the journals each month. Unfortunately they don’t put the roundup on the website which is a pity. Also unfortunately, one of the articles that caught my eye this month Lessons...
by chriscurnow | Jul 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Crooked Timber. One year old on July 8. There is a certain culture of blogs that started about one year ago. Can’t quite put my finger on it but there is something about them.
by chriscurnow | Jul 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
Accordng to this weekend’s Australian Financial Review, corporate executioners have a tough time [payment required]. On one level, chriscurnow.com finds it pretty hard to work up a lot of sympathy for people who wield the axe in corporations. They take the...
