I am always being asked by people how they can become a coach. I thought maybe it was time to write a blog about this then. I'd like to start out by cautioning people that being a coach doesn't mean that you'll be listened to anymore than before you were a coach. I have found I have to earn my credibility every time I start an engagement.

In the November 2006 edition of Scientific American, Stuart Kauffman has a short essay on the use of biological metaphors for economic study.

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One of the core principles of Lean-Agile is to perfect your processes. There is always room for improvement. Well, that is certainly the case with me! There is always more to learn.

I've been pretty serious so far in my blogs, but I thought I'd have some fun with this one. I have always loved jokes and headlines as ways of illustrating how our communications are very ambigous. One of my very first rquirements courses used the writings of Lewis Carroll (Alice In Wonderland, ...) to illustrate this. In the wonderful (but unfortunately, out of print) The Magic of Lewis Carroll, John Fisher talks about how Carroll wrote many of his stories to teach mathematical logic to his niece.  read more »