Robert and Christopher Strauss in their book, "Four Overarching Patterns of Culture: A Look at Common Behavior" speaks of four "Cultural Patterns." These are: JusticeHonorReciprocityHarmony I find these to be useful categories for a framework. Of course, the test of categories in a framework is its usefulness, not its correctness. So if one person has …
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The Engineer’s Baby. Part #2
<In the first part, I used the analogy of a designer's attitude with regards to his creation. There is a tendency to see it almost as in terms of a parent-child relationship. There are positive sides to that and negative sides to that. Now, bringing this to mission projects, programs.> Missions involves creative creation. New …