Jim Collins.com

I'd be remiss after that last post if I didn't include a link to Jim Collins' excellent web page. I'm an especially big fan of his audio clip - they're in permanent rotation on my iPod.

Welcome to Jim Collins.com

tompeters! management lessons

Though I'm far more partial to Jim Collins, Tom Peters has established a reputation for providing management behaviour insight. Great (free) compilations of his lessons are posted at this page that you might want to check regularly.

I'm most partial to the 'This I BelieveS" at the bootom of the page.

Any of these articles make for good plane reading, or to be pulled out and dusted off once a year as a reminder.

tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management

gladwell.com: U.S. versus U.K.

Though I'm skeptical about anything originating from Paul Krugman, I find this article from Malcom Gladwell very interesting and worth commenting.

Gladwell/Krugman use the finding that in spite of far greater spending on healthcare, Americans are on average less healthy than Britons.

The conclusion in the article is that it's because Americans are far more stressed. I won't argue with that, but am surprised that no one is using the article to argue about a different healthcare system for the US, as the UK is a single-payer (nationalized) system.

Thoughts?

gladwell.com: U.S. versus U.K.