As I get my head around being a course leader and thinking about the way the course may develop, I find this nugget of wisdom from Tom Peters encouraging, partly because it fits my own instincs. "I often say ... that I've learned but one thing in 40 years, since I began my management career as a military (Navy) construction engineer in Vietnam in 1966. And that is ... 'try stuff' ... faster than the next guy. ('We have a 'strategic plan.' It's called doing things.'—Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines.) And keep on tryin' stuff."
On a recent conference explaining what I did one of the things I said, only half jokingly, was that I was hoping to out-innovate other courses ... hope I'm not setting myself up for a fall, but I've got some ideas ....
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I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...
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I've been watching the TV series 'Foundation'. I read the books about 50 years ago (I know!) but scarcely now remember anything...
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"'Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell yo...
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