Ignore Everybody – You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is not...
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not...
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I see one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished ... The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too...
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela But this education needs to come from credible sources. In our new world of disinformation we need to ask did you read that...
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This book was given to me early in my career by a mentor. It makes a clear and concise statement ... If you're working in a dysfunctional organization and you're unable to make the needed improvements to a level that...
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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. ― Anonymous
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There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. - Richard Buckminster Fuller (US engineer and architect, 1895-1983) I was fortunate to be present in the studio when Buckminster Fuller was being interviewed on the...
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I am amused, I said, at your fear of the world, which makes you guard against the appliance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of...
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Most of us are not interested in greatness, just in common, ordinary, everyday achievement - Henry Million, MOT Professor, Director of the American Academy in Rome
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Like a snake who must keep swimming to live, a politician must keep his lips continuously moving. - the opening of Chapter 6, Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, commenting on the General who he worked with in Vietnam and now worked...
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And no matter where you go or what you do, you will be inextricably bound to a brotherhood that spans continents and generations. Every hearth that bears the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is home, every arm being that brand brings...
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Don’t let the tool control the hand that uses it. – Lt Gen H. H. Driessnack, USAF When we hear about solutions looking for problems to solve, think of General Driessnack's advice. Find the problem first. Then find the corrective...
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Cost and schedule growth for any project or program is created when there are: Unrealistic technical performance expectations, Unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, Inadequate risk assessments, and Unanticipated technical issues, all based on poorly performed and ineffective risk management. Each...
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We pretend that technology, our technology, is something of a life force, a will, and a thrust of its own, on which we can blame all, with which we can explain all, and is the end by means of which...
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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on a software-intensive system of systems (SISoS) using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on...
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