Government Motors
In the 1930s Will Rogers humorously suggested: “There’s a simple solution to this traffic problem. We’ll have business build the roads and government build the cars.”
We’re there with the cars:
With Sale of Its Good Assets, G.M. Tries for a Fresh Start
We’ve been privatizing road building for some time now:
Any way you look at it things in transportation are changing.
My Fellow Taxpayers
What would happen to our collective point of view if we always replaced government with “my fellow taxpayers”? Would anyone go along with it if a politician proposed that “my fellow taxpayers” bailout whichever multibillion dollar industry is failing this week?
This idea comes from an exercise I read about a professor doing at Harvard in “Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds“.
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Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Ken Schwaber
My rating: 3 of 5 stars SCRUM is a process I had heard a lot about but I hadn't ever really learned about. I'm glad I did learn about it, how it works and how it came about. The main idea is to enable development teams to focus on development without distractions or interruptions from management or anywhere else. The most helpful part was the section on empirical process control and how such an approach is the only way to deal with creative development. The defined process approach can never work; despite what they may have taught in school. View all my reviews >>
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