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I remember a lecture (Management of Research and Creativity) where Prof. R. Boutellier explained that the successive stages of an academic career and when a scientist should gamble, and when she should do secure science… But there is another similarity between faculty and gamblers, as Derek Bok wrote in University in the Marketplace: "Universities share [...]

“You can only manage what you can measure” is a very famous sentence of Peter Drucker, the guru in modern management therory and also attributed to W. Edward Deming another famous management diva. I think, it’s true for managing Toyota, Dell and for sure UBS as well. But you cannot run your family, your school, [...]

Until June 2008, I’ll have to somewhat reduce my IT activities and concentrate on thesis of my postgraduate Master in Advanced Sciences. My topic is pretty controversial one: “Resource allocation in higher education organizations”. So I will post some interesting thoughts and citations. I like this one very much: “Education is not about filling pots. [...]