Friday comment. On thinking
Lets be a bit different this Friday and talk in general about thinking. From an article on Darwin magazine by John Baldoni (On the value of thinking) I copy the following:
We live in a culture with a strong bias for action. This is good; it is what has propelled American enterprise as the engine of global commerce. But in the process, it has chewed up good ideas and good people. While ideas are not in short supply, thinking them through is not valued enough. Too often we jump the gun with half-baked ideas, not because we are half-baked but because our management system rewards us for doing, not thinking.
Our work culture is so much based on mindless action that it is good to remember that if you ran your business in the Taylorian spirit of 'managers think workers act' you are soon going to hit a wall of stagnation.
How do you run your software business?
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Posted by Harry at April 2, 2004 02:13 AM
