managing by maxims and epigrams for slideshare
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Managing by Maxims&
By
Peter de Jager
Epigrams
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Heraclitus? – 501 BCE
Change is theOnly constant
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John Keats on Proverbs
A proverbis no proverb to you‘til life has illustrated it
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Nothing is Simple
Shannon`s Law
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Murphy’s Law
If anything can go wrong…It will go wrong
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Tolkien’s Reminder
It does not do to leave a Live dragonout of your Calculations… If you live near him
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At least 1,290,000,000 People
We never have time to do it rightWe always have time to do it over
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Daugherty`s Law
Temporary thingsTend to become
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Daugherty`s Law
Temporary thingsTend to become
Permanent
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De Jager`s Law of Problems
Never accept the user`s problem definition At face value…
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Hildebrant’s Plotting Principle
If we don’t knowwhere we’re going?Any road will get us there.
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Tatman`s Assumption
Always assumethat your AssumptionIs Invalid
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Cooks Theorem
If you can`t solvea problem ForwardIt can usually beSolved Backward
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de Jager’s Challenge
Good problem solversavoid more problemsthan they solve
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de Jager`s Optimism
Being pushed to the wall… Gives us the momentumwe need To get over it.
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William Somerset Maugham
Only a mediocreperson is alwaysat their Best.
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Robert A Heinlein - Lazarus
Always Cutthe cards
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Bulin’s Advice
If a thing isworth doing,
It’s worth doing well
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We CAN edit them…If a thing is NOTworth doing,
It’s NOT worth doing well If at all
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Scottish Proverb
What may be done at AnytimeWill be done at no Time
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Robert A HeinleinProgress is madeby Lazy menLooking for easier waysto do things
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Clay’s Conclusion
Creativity Is Great
PlagiarismIs Faster
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Elbert Hubbard
To escape criticism Do nothing Say nothing Be nothing
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Heinberg’s Change Rule
You can’t do just one Thing
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Upward Mobility Rule
Don’t be irreplaceableIf you can’t be replacedYou can’t be promoted
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Woodruff’s Work RuleEverybodyWorksFor
The Sales department
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Summary?
Why don’t we do
What we knowshould be done?
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