Herodotus (born around 485BC) was a Greek traveler and chronicler of stories. He was quite open to sharing tall tales... intermixed with solid history. In his book "An Account of Egypt" Herodotus recounts his conversation with Egyptian priests. In that account, the priests tell the story of the building of the great pyramids of Giza, …
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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 …