[44663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Dec 7 12:20:45 2001
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:17:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Petr Swedock wrote:
> With regards to Peter Drucker... his sagacity lies in a deep
> understanding of the history of his field and long observance
> of such (some sixty years!). Jack Welch is hype. I don't
True, re. Drucker. Jack Welch is a bit more than hype - General Electric
is a heck of a business success story (even if some of its environmental
practices have been questionable). Not too many companies have quite the
track record of GE - and Welch was clearly behind a lot of that success.
He's also trained a lot of people.
> think we're in an equivalent place in the history of our field
> where any-one can, definitively, say, either from long study
> (Drucker) or manufactured hype (Welch), what works best, or
> -perhaps more importantly- what underlying misconceptions
> and mistakes fuel operations on a daily basis
there are probably a lot of lessons that can be extracted from other
operational contexts - electric operations, air traffic control, emergency
response, military command and control
Miles
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