War, Chaos, and Business
On his way back to Greece to resume cruising the eastern Med, Chuck Spinney did pause long enough to convince me to add “Destruction and Creation” to my “Origins of the Discourse” (272KB PDF) chart. He’s right that everything Boyd did after that 1976 paper was in some way an elaboration of the fundamental [...]
Online application forms, and the new brochure for the Executive MBA in Family Business at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw St. University, are now available.
This unique program is taught by the faculty of the Cox Family Enterprise Center at Coles, which has been named as one of the top six family business programs by [...]
Here at ChetRichards.com we practice fundamentalist Kaizen, the uncompromised and ceaseless pursuit of perfection.
In that spirit, here is an updated version of the Origins of John Boyd’s A Discourse on Winning and Losing. It rounds out the big box at the bottom with something more substantive than “etc.” I have also increased the size [...]
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Reviewed by Robert D. Brown III
February 6, 2008
[Originally published in slightly different form at Robert Brown's Blog. Robert D. Brown III is a business strategy consultant who lives in the Atlanta area.]
For those impressed by the provocative and insightful book The Tipping Point by Malcolm [...]
The attached chart, Origins of the Discourse, is my contribution to the Big Boyd Blog-a-thon starting Monday, February 4, 2008, over at the Chicago Boyz blog [note - the link is to the final version, not the original].
Boyd, like Clausewitz and Musashi, drew on the totality of knowledge in his day for ideas. As [...]