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Originally circulated on 29 November 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants Forgive me ruminants and groupies it has been two weeks since my last ruminations. I have a fascinating stock of ideas from participants and today’s idea came from one of you. Over (good) coffee  a few weeks ago a colleague and I and I were discussingContinue reading “Five Levels of Why”

Originally circulated on 6 December 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants Hi ruminants and groupies. This will be my last rumination for 2019 so I would like to finish with something suitably weighty. I have discussed this topic with some of you before and indeed I thought there was a Ruminant Pink Friday ™ submission on thisContinue reading “The Iron Law of Megaproject Management”

Originally circulated on 13 December 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies Best wishes for the festive season and to very busy Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ in 2020. I thought that last week would be my last submission for the year but I got such a fantastic submission from one of my more timid colleagues whoseContinue reading “The difference between a Snafu, a Shitshow and a Clusterfug”

Originally circulated on 21 February 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies Apologies for the very slow start to Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ in 2020. My weak excuse is that I was sprinting. I think it is appropriate to start the year with one of my favourite topics which is dominance hierarchies. Earlier I introduced thisContinue reading “Ruminations on life at the bottom of dominance hierarchies”

Originally circulated on 17 April 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Greetings from 21 day of lock down. This week I bewail  the lack of inspiration from you with no worthy submissions  from any  of you for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ Hopefully this will change. This week I am going to focusContinue reading “Ruminations on the fabric of reality modelling, simulation and heuristics (part one)”

Originally circulated on 24 April 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Greetings from 28 day of lock down. This week I have received a number of worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ which will be fleshed out in the coming weeks. Thank you for this.  This week I need to completeContinue reading “Ruminations on the fabric of reality modelling, simulation and heuristics (part two)”

Originally circulated on 8 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 42 of lock down. Over the past two weeks I have received a number of worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ which I am thinking about. However because 42 is so significant I am assertingContinue reading “Ruminations on the precautionary principle & lock down”

Originally circulated on 5 June 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 70 of lock down. Over the past two weeks a number of people sent me the link for the free movie/documentary, “Planet of the Humans” and suggested this as a suitable topic for  Ruminant Pink Friday’sContinue reading “Ruminations on Planet of the Humans, criticism and the Malthusian debate”

Originally circulated on 29 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 63 of lock down. Over the past week I have received no worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™. I think it is fair to say that we now live in a period of unprecedented uncertaintyContinue reading “Ruminations on uncertainty, the yearning for certainty, mental health, false certainty and fragility”

Originally circulated on 12 June 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 77 of lock down. During the course of this week one of my colleagues (who shall remain nameless) alerted me to an intriguing  and seditious piece of research on the topic of whether CEO pay correlatesContinue reading “Ruminations on CEO pay and its link to company performance”