by sravan ankaraju on January 23, 2010
in Execution
One of my favorite books is “Mountain beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder. With Haiti’s earthquake and human tragedy, let me share the quotes I captured from the book – There is a difference between managing wealth and managing health. Farmer denounced all ideologies, including his own, at least a little. “It’s an ology, after all,” [...]
The flaw with the simplicity/complexity is that it gives the impression that it about making a binary choice – but simplicity and complexity are not polar opposites. In fact, making something “simpler” is often a case of relocating complexity, rather than eliminating it. For example, from the driver’s perspective, a manual-shift transmission is more complex [...]