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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Petr Swedock wrote: > With regards to Peter Drucker... his sagacity lies in a deep > understanding of the history of his field and long observance > of such (some sixty years!). Jack Welch is hype. I don't True, re. Drucker. Jack Welch is a bit more than hype - General Electric is a heck of a business success story (even if some of its environmental practices have been questionable). Not too many companies have quite the track record of GE - and Welch was clearly behind a lot of that success. He's also trained a lot of people. > think we're in an equivalent place in the history of our field > where any-one can, definitively, say, either from long study > (Drucker) or manufactured hype (Welch), what works best, or > -perhaps more importantly- what underlying misconceptions > and mistakes fuel operations on a daily basis there are probably a lot of lessons that can be extracted from other operational contexts - electric operations, air traffic control, emergency response, military command and control Miles ************************************************************************** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategies Program 617-558-3698 fax: 617-630-8946 [email protected] http://civic.net/ccn.html Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!" **************************************************************************
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