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That kind of quality is seen in linkedin style thought leaders. Mostly blathering about obvious or obviously stupid things.



I think such posts (and books) are usually meant like checklists for people who already knows that stuff (not learning it), but want it formalized. Then when you have issues for example with team members, you can look at those resources and try to assess why something is going into the wrong direction. It's easier to enumerate those points then.


It seems this kind of posts/books is more aimed to selling oneself as a consulting business process expert in a corporate market than to teach anything to the practitioners. It's a bunch of soundbites aimed at a dilettante.


people need to start somewhere, for someone experienced, sure he might sound like he is stating the obvious

for a novice, he might be enlightening

don't underestimate how much you know, or assume that everyone else knows it


For this article at least, I have to wonder if a novice would get any meaningful, actionable tips or enlightenment from these terse bullet points.


Well, management to some degree is a form of highly refined dilettantism, so they may go well together.




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