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“Je n’ignore point la resistance qu’oppose la routine, cette ennemie aveugle et opiniâtre du bien qu’on lui présente, tant qu’il porte le caractère de la nouveauté; je sais avec quelle persévérance elle se replie sans cesse sur elle-même pour perpétuer son empire.” “I am not unaware of resistance that the Routine opposes, this blind and [...]

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, [...]