This site under reconstruction.
A couple of posts ago, I said that I was going to do some comments on certain topics in Rework and their newest book, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Last time I wrote about their provocative idea that failure is not something to be celebrated…
Actually, the title of the chapter in Rework says “Failure is not a rite of passage” and goes on to say that “learning from mistakes is overrated”. I just recently re-read Rework before finishing off their second book It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and the authors do have contrarian views, some I…
I truly did. But I just can’t. I started this book, The End of Work by John Tamny, thinking that it would give a positive take on the robot/AI takeover. The initial impression I had was that the robot takeover would lead people to having jobs that they were passionate about or “Why your passion…
“ “We need the work you do here. I like what you’re doing with Ventures and making progress with Lighting. Current is a good idea. We have to do more of these. The GE brand is in great shape. FastWorks is important – we need your help more than ever,” Jeff said. “Please help me…
Continuing with Imagine It Forward Now I’m deep into the years right after the Great Recession, a time when GE nearly caved under during the crisis and had to be saved by first the government and then by Warren Buffet. I think I’m starting to get the first glimmer of why GE later had problems…
Right now, I’m reading Imagine It Forward by Beth Comstock, little by little, along with two other books. About two posts ago, I did a short post about what I learned from her regarding her short time with Jack Welch. While she never out rightly said he did things that might not have been good…