Nerd Alert: This Post is About Peter Jackson, Tolkien, and Project Management

I’m tremendously excited about “The Hobbit”. Opening in a month, Peter Jackson is gifting us with another literary-based, holiday treat filled with my preferred character actors.  So of course I ha... read more

Non-Records Books for Records Managers: Tracy Kidder’s “Soul of a New Machine”

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I finished recently Tracy Kidder’s “Soul of a New Machine”.   As I read it, I thought a lot about the first time I heard the Benny Goodman Trio’s 1935 recording of “Body and Soul” (Benny Goodman wi... read more

Records Books for Records Managers: Soll’s “The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System”

At 22, I embarked on my journey to write the first of many bad but earnest pieces of nonfiction: my undergraduate thesis.  It described the voyage of the first shipment of women to (what is today) ... read more