Author Archive for: Jaan Pill
Entries by Jaan Pill
The oldest approach to management involves telling people what to do, if necessary by using violence or the threat of violence
Management: A Very Short Introduction (2013) is a delightful book, which provides a brief and cogent overview of management theory and practice. The book’s author, John Hendry, is founding director of the University of Cambridge MBA and has been teaching management for over 25 years. Reason has its limits The first chapter defines management and […]
“Recalling the power of Mother Nature, 60 years after Hurricane Hazel” – Oct. 9, 2014 Etobicoke Guardian
An Oct. 9, 2014 Etobicoke Guardian article by Cynthia Reason is entitled: “Recalling the power of Mother Nature, 60 years after Hurricane Hazel: Storm took 81 lives, but transformed flood management practices to help protect future generations.” An Environment Canada overview of Hurricane Hazel can be accessed here.
View of the Lakeshore from Kipling to Etobicoke Creek
John Easton has forwarded a great link, for which we owe many thanks, which provides a view of the Lakeshore from Kipling to Etobicoke Creek: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.582897825112504.1073741839.559985550737065&type=1
The MCHS 60s Reunion will take place on Oct. 17, 2015 at Old Mill Toronto
In September 2014, after taking a break during the summer, the Malcolm Campbell High School 60s Reunion organizing committee met in Toronto and in Kitchener. Sept. 22, 2014 On Sept. 22, 2014 Scott Munro and Jaan Pill visited Old Mill Toronto, the venue for the MCHS 60s Reunion, which will take place a year from […]
Music from the MCHS days in the 60s – and then some. We owe thanks to Ron Van Dyke for this link.
Ron Van Dyke writes: “Music from the MCHS days in the 60s ….and then some.” http://www.45rpmdb.com/Top10.html Thank you, Ron, for the link! Updates on the way from MCHS 60s Reunion Committee We are currently preparing a series of blog posts with updates about the following topics. During the past two weeks, the MCHS 60s […]
In the United States, painkillers take more lives than heroin and cocaine combined – Globe and Mail, Oct. 3, 2014
The topic of evidence and where it leads is of interest to me. Truthiness takes a person elsewhere; truthiness makes for engaging and compelling stories built upon the absence of empirical evidence. As noted at the link in the previous sentence, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness (2012) provides a definition and an overview (pp. […]
1989 was a critical year in the history of Eastern and Central Europe, and of the world
Twenty-five years ago in the summer of 1989, I travelled to the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – at that time still under occupation by the Soviet Union. I also travelled to Sweden, which had maintained a state of neutrality, or at least the appearance of it, through the First and Second World […]