Steve Denning: Why Agile Needs To Take Over Management Itself. Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. (business agility) (more)

Johnson and Johnson, Johnson & Johnson

Business Process Reengineering

getting stuff done: business process management, business process re-engineering

value delivered to a customer (see customer-driven)

Customer Development focused instead of Product-Driven Auteur Theory? Peter Drucker: There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. (Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business) (more)

Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982)[1] is an American film director, author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and attorney.[2][3] He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan.[4] Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he narrated the first season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Huang (more)

The word "mid-witted" was popularized by far-right activist and writer Vox Day. On February 17th, 2012, Vox Day[1] published the blog post "The tragedy of the mid-witted" in which he commented on a life story article "Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume" by Jennifer Wright... The term "midwit," meaning a person of average intelligence, saw use on 4chan starting in late 2013... On January 1st, 2017, an anonymous 4chan[6] user made the earliest found post which used the IQ bell curve diagram to argue about the similarity of political views of groups with low and high intelligence... On June 24th, 2019, an anonymous /pol/[11] user posted a Manlet meme referencing the horseshoe theory interpretation of the IQ bell curve... The viral popularity of the format began on March 10th, 2010, when an anonymous 4chan[15] user posted a meme about Ted Kaczynski and the anarcho-primitivistic ideology. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit (cf Middle Mind) (more)

infamous Tiger Mom author (and Yale University professor, mentor of J D Vance)

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley;[a] November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, political commentator and novelist.[1] Born in New York City, Buckley spoke Spanish as his first language before learning French and then English as a child.[2] He served stateside in the United States Army during World War II. Following the war, he attended Yale University, where he engaged in debate and conservative political commentary; he graduated from Yale with honors in 1950. Afterward, he worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for two years. In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the growth and development of the conservative movement in the United States. In addition to editorials in National Review, Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than 50 other books on diverse topics, including writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing. His works include a series of novels featuring fictitious CIA officer Blackford Oakes and a nationally syndicated newspaper column.[3][4] In 1965, Buckley ran for mayor of New York City on the Conservative Party line, finishing third. From 1966 to 1999, he hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line, the longest-running public affairs show with a single host in U.S. television history; through his work on the show, he became known for his Northeastern elite accent and wide vocabulary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr.

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/3/22: Loosening Bounds. Executive Summary: Cases declining quickly. My people are being let go in some places but not many yet, mostly slowly. (more)

college that's part of the Ivy League

Wesley Yang is an American essayist and public intellectual. He is currently a columnist for Tablet magazine and a contributor editor for Esquire. Yang was born to Korean-American parents who were refugees from the Korean War and was raised in New Jersey.[1] He studied history at Rutgers University. Yang attracted mainstream attention in 2008 after publishing an article in n+1 about Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting. He has since then written extensively about the experiences of Asian-Americans in American society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Yang

Satya Narayana Nadella (English: /nəˈdɛlə/, Telugu: [sɐt̪jɐ naːraːjɐɳɐ naːd̪eɭːɐ]; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-born American business executive who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO[2][3] and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.[4][5] Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella

Martin Cagan: The Product Model and Org Design: one very common question we often get is whether they will need to reorganize as part of that transformation? TL;DR: in most cases, a reorg is not necessary. (more)

geek, systems thinker https://www.kalzumeus.com/ (more)

Edgar Henry Schein (born March 5, 1928), a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has made a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture... Schein's model of organizational culture originated in the 1980s. Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures: artifacts and behaviours; espoused values; assumptions... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein (more)

He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley (more)

The Lunar Society was a discussion club, of a number of prominent industrialists and scientists, who met regularly in the latter half of the 18th century in Birmingham, England. The society's name came from their practice of scheduling their meetings at the time of the full moon (in that time of no street lighting, the extra light made the journey home easier)... The Lunar Society evolved through various degrees of organisation over a period of up to fifty years, but was only ever an informal group. No constitution, minutes, publications or membership lists survive from any period, and evidence of its existence and activities is found only in the correspondence and notes of those associated with it... Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., Robert Augustus Johnson, James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Society (more)

book by Jenny Uglow ISBN:0374194408 about the Lunar Society, focusing on Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's grandfather) (more)