A ship can only have one captain. A car can only have one driver. We can’t all just hold hands and sing Kumbaya — someone has to make a decision and take responsibility.
In the world of metaphor, centralized control always seems to make more sense.
The evidentiary world is less certain. Take, for example, a little something I like to call the “Internet.” You might have heard of it.
Four words to eliminate from your vocabulary are good, bad, right, and wrong.
No, I’m not promoting rampant immorality, abandonment of your ethical code, or abolishment of truth, righteousness, and the American way.
What I want people to do is to avoid using these as categories, into which they file ideas so that later on they know which ones to pay attention to and which to ignore.
Take, for example, last week’s column, which suggested non-IT business managers might benefit from Agile’s way of organizing work around generalists, rather than the more usual reliance on coordinating multiple specialists.
