Archive for March, 2007

Teaching “…the Mirror” to CIOs

March 16, 2007

During today’s presentation to the San Jose CIO Community of Practice, several underlying themes (of the book, of these blog commentaries) were discussed; as promised, I will note them here, so that the attendees of the session have an opportunity to “extend the discussion…”
As with last week’s presentation at the Naval Postgraduate School, though with [...]

A quick note about Quick Notes…

March 16, 2007

There is a collaboration inherent in every effort to write (what I am doing now) and read (what you are doing now).  Subsequently, there are implicit obligations to the collaborative process, and occassionally, I think it’s useful to re-state them, for those who’ve just jumped into the column and haven’t yet read anything that comes [...]

There are mirrors everywhere…even in The Navy

March 6, 2007

Last night, I had the good fortune to speak to a group of Navy captains as part of their continuous learning program sponsored by the Naval Postgratuate School in Monterey, CA. (See http://www.nps.edu for more information about their mission and programs.)
The simplicity of our metaphor (we reflect ourselves in the systems that we build; as [...]