Monthly Archives: February 2007

WHAT ASSURANCE HAVE WE?

Posted on February 26, 2007 by hoon

Since a wise man can be mistaken, and a hundred men, and many nations, yes, and human nature is mistaken for many centuries about this or that, what assurance have we that sometimes it stops being mistaken, and in this … Continue reading →

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NOVEL IMAGES

Posted on February 16, 2007 by hoon

If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to … Continue reading →

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A BRIDGE TOO FAR

Posted on February 15, 2007 by hoon

Wow! An underling of Georgia state legislator Ben Bridges writes a memo tagging a Jewish Pharisee conspiracy as the cause of “secular evolution science”. Then, after lying about it in the aftermath of the memo’s stirring the pot, State rep. … Continue reading →

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SNOWED

Posted on February 14, 2007 by hoon

My Honda Civic is good in the snow once it gets moving but it needs to be moving. Today a foot of snow has captured my car, Coltrane, in the driveway. The local news channels have switched to “Winter Storm … Continue reading →

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CORNERED

Posted on February 13, 2007 by hoon

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo via Vanity Fair; excerpt: Gail Sheehy, from her book, The Accidental candidate. When Barbara Bush took her 13-year-old son and his best friend, Doug Hannah, to play golf at her Houston club, George would start … Continue reading →

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DR. ROSS, I HAVE A QUESTION

Posted on February 13, 2007 by hoon

Interesting article about a scientist and creationist. New York Times: Believing Scripture But Playing By Science’s Rules But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a “young earth creationist” — he believes that the Bible is a literally … Continue reading →

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SEA WORLD

Posted on February 11, 2007 by hoon

Several captures from the old web site. Subject: organizational oceanography! Weick and Mintzberg are two of my main guys. Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. Karl Weick On … Continue reading →

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IN THE LIBRARY

Posted on February 9, 2007 by hoon

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Posted on February 7, 2007 by hoon

One of my favorites unearthed from the old web site. The baseline goal that that the organization or any human system must pursue is the development of the person within it; other matters, other goals, must come after. — …the … Continue reading →

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WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?

Posted on February 1, 2007 by hoon

This month’s teaching cartoon is a version of a story from the canon of Nasruddin. Ha! I mean cannon. Share and Enjoy:

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