My Blogging Philosophy

post # 1 — January 18, 2006 — a General post

The title of my blog derives from a comment made by Tom Peters who observed in his blog that ”…(it’s) interesting how all these gurus—e.g. Stan Davis, Gary Hamel, David Maister—come to put People & Passion first as they age. Hmmm…”

The only element I’ve added is the importance of having principles both in personal and professional life. One way or another, all my research conclusions, consulting advice and speeches come down to passion, people and principles.

I hope to use this blog to share my initial thoughts on new issues that I may, someday, write an article about. I really hope that these thoughts will create dialogues, and not just one-way pontifications. Please participate, by posing challenging new questions and suggesting emerging topics, and perhaps together we can all make progress in our understanding.

By the way, before I launched this blog, my website had an “Ask David” section which allowed visitors to pose questions to me. (The archives are here) I still eagerly solicit your suggestions for blog topics, but I will no longer be responding to questions about topics about which I (or others) have already written extensively. I don’t want this blog to be filled with old answers and old advice.