by Rob Worth | 20 Jul 2021 | Purpose
Have you found the “One Thing”? I have. Lots of them. I’d found it. The One Thing. It was Microsoft Access. Yes! No laughing at the back. Microsoft Access. In 1997, I’d been working as a financial analyst at Chase Manhattan for three months. Every day I had to grapple...
by Rob Worth | 28 Jun 2021 | Purpose
Why is writing about complexity and systems so hard? Writing about anything is difficult. How to describe people, places and things in an engaging and useful way is the problem facing any non-fiction writer. But we who write about complexity and systems have it much...
by Rob Worth | 27 Jun 2021 | Purpose
If I’d read the other book, I wouldn’t be me Please don’t recommend any books to me because I’ll want to read them. But luckily, in 2000, I read the wrong book. I was a software team leader in a bank. I had discovered Extreme Programming (XP) and was introducing it to...
by Rob Worth | 26 Jun 2021 | Purpose
Could complexity and systems thinking save the world? If more people knew a little more about complexity and systems thinking, we could resolve our biggest problems. But there aren’t enough books about this that are accessible and readable. There are some fascinating,...
