PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES, BOOKS, SPEECHES
Product Development Perspectives - Usability and Economics (presented to Viatec group January 2012)
How Are You Growing Your Bureaucracy? (introduction & outline, PAMEA 2009)
Avionics Modifications in Reality
(Presented at Aircraft Electronics Association conference, Vancouver BC, 1997.)
Ensuring the Integrity of Aircraft Tires
Flight Safety Foundation International Air Safety Seminar, Rio de Janeiro, November 1983.
(Published by FSF in seminar proceedings.)
Are Monopolies Possible?
(Earlier versions distributed in Compuserve Forums under related titles.)
Who is your competition? (using grocery stores as an example)
Why Businessmen Should Be Honest, by Jaana Woiceshyn & Ed Locke,
September 1995 Journal of Organizational Behaviour, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (Wiley Interscience).
I don't know how solidly Bill Gates has spread the values underlying Microsoft's undeniable success throughout the company - I see gaps, but he lays some out in his articles Ten Attributes of a Good Employee, What Makes a Good Manager, and Long-Term Leadership Demands Candor & Consistency
Usually found on www.microsoft.com in PressPass > Bill Gates' columns.
Try here:
Speech by BBandT CEO John Allison Rules of the Garage (regrets, HP may have moved the link) Work Culture (Analog Devices)
How to be Profitable and Moral by Jaana Woiceshyn
(my review)
Negotiation - for life & business by Rob Flitton
(my review)
The Essence of Leadership, Edwin Locke et al
(Identifies the leadership traits that have made real companies successful.)
No Excuses Management, T.J.Rodgers
(Worthwhile for its "no-politics" and "everyone hears the reasons" approaches,
from a successful entrepreneur and executive of a high tech business.)
The Last Place On Earth
(The saga of how and why the first team to reach the South Pole achieved that goal
and returned alive, while others did not. Of note for knowledge acquisition and planning/preparation.)
© Keith Sketchley
2012.03.24