Top-10 iFoundry YouTube videos: #9 – Ethical Engineering Decision Making

Monday, September 7, 2009

Coming in at no. 9  with 622 views is MIchael Loui’s Ethical Engineering Decision Making

Or watch it on YouTube here.

Jim Collins: How the Mighty Fall

Monday, September 7, 2009

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last, has a new book, How the Might Fall, in which he details research into what he identifies as the five stages of failure:

Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success
Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More
Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril
Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation
Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death

Useful reviews of the text are  available here.