Review: Orbiting the Giant Hairball–A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace

Over the Top on Cute, Profound Insights, No Solutions September 4, 2001 Gordon MacKenzieI would never have bought this book off the shelf, because it is way over the top with cutesy child-like drawings, hard to read type, and other affectations–it goes beyond charming toward excessive cosmetics. It was, however, recommended by someone I trust, …

Review: Pandora’s Poison–Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy (Paperback)

Double Value: on Environmental *and* Information Strategy June 2, 2001 Joe Thornton This is the best of the several environmentally-oriented books I have reviewed recently, and it offers a double value: not only does it lay out a persuasive social, economic, and political case for abandoning the Risk Paradigm of permissive pollution in favor of …

2001 Dumaine (US) Global Futures Partnership “Are You Ready”

Carol Dumaine was for a few years allowed to manage an internal revoslution in intelligence affairs that ultimately failed, but left its mark.  She is still standing, and we expect to see her at the finish line when we finally do achieve a revolution in intelligence affairs and create both a Smart Nation and a …