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The Management Uncertainty Principle

Jan 26, 2010 5:19am

We’ve seen how physicists have discovered the limitations on their ability to attain precise and comprehensive knowledge about the characteristics of an object at a given moment in time. How certain, in the face of this from physics, are we in our own field that we can even identify precisely...

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Jan 20, 2010 5:23am

One of the most peculiar phenomenon uncovered in physics over the past century is known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. This states – to the great frustration and irritation of many – that we cannot know with precision both elements of certain pairs of characteristics of an object. Most commonly,...

Notes for the New Year

Jan 11, 2010 1:15am

Events drive others until you prioritize, imposing some degree of control on their flow and on the degree to which that affects you – or, better yet, reversing the direction of that influence. In my case, a re-prioritization was called for by events of late last year, and one of...

A Baker’s Dozen plus one for 2010

Jan 1, 2010 11:07am

It is time to offer a list of recommended additions to your daily reading list – sources that have found their way firmly on to mine over the past year. Some have clear staying power, and others are new, but promise to be keepers. I hope you will bookmark this page...

Thanks for your contributions in 2009!

Dec 30, 2009 8:56am

Easily one of the most gratifying aspects of authoring a site like this is the interaction offered by visitors from around the world. They present thoughtful and engaging comments from which we all learn so much, not least of which, often enough, are the contributors’ own web sites. Below please find,...

Hardly worth the bother

Dec 10, 2009 7:54pm

We’ve been looking at how various modern professionals look at the questions of how the universe works, what our place is in it, and which elements – physical reality or psychic will – drive which. But this is an ancient question. And the earliest of those who asked it ....

Clutch decisions

Dec 3, 2009 1:13pm

Strictly speaking, a psychiatrist is essentially a physician who specializes in mental disease. . ....

Rigging the dice

Nov 25, 2009 7:28am

From nearly the beginning, we have struggled to understand how the world around us works. But for all that we have a naturally inquisitive nature, this has never been about artless curiosity or pure research – we want to discover the mechanisms driving cause to effect. We want access to...

A particle off the old block

Nov 20, 2009 8:18am

As we saw last week, quantum physicists can be pretty strange folk – every bit, perhaps, as weird as the models they posit for how the physical world really works. One of them is unshakably convinced of the validity of, essentially, the whole of the science. He declares his faith...

Book Review: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

Nov 13, 2009 9:22am

Sramana Mitra has plotted out a series of books on various aspects of entrepreneurial activity with regard to its effects on management and on the general economy. They all are formed around interviews with entrepreneurs whose experiences illustrate the main theme of each volume. The first . . ....