Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Showing posts with label Russell Ackoff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russell Ackoff. Show all posts
Monday, November 28, 2011

A Citizen's Bible?

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I have to confess to some ennui – like my gout, an affliction of the privileged! Perhaps the absence of the edge the white wine brought to m...
Friday, December 17, 2010

The language of Deceit

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Ambrose Bierce was an American journalist in the latter part of the 19th Century whose pithy and tough definitions of everyday words, in h...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

project management and modern work places

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Guess who? For the past 20 years my technical title has been "Team Leader" of various EU projects of Technical Assistance. I have ...
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Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains
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