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© 2005 Don Gray Three of my favorite quotes about change and translations: “The only person who likes change is a wet baby.” This change corrects a problem so I’m OK with it.”Everyone likes change, when someone else is doing it.”...
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In this game, the only way to win is to stop playing. ©2004, 2005 Don Gray and Gerald M. Weinberg It may look like a crisis, but it’s only the end of an illusion. – Rhonda’s First Revelation The Setup Sharkey, the sales VP of UberDenke Software...
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© Don Gray 2003, 2010 I’ll never forget that morning even though it happened a quarter of a century ago. I was a programmer helping start up a new factory, and things had been going OK. Not great, but OK. I decided that morning on the way to the factory I was...
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© Don Gray 2002-2022 I remember when I first started solving problems for a living. I would leap down the stairs three at a time, race to the computer room, and stare at the line printer (yes, it was that long ago) trying to determine what had happened, and what to do...
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©2001 – 2022 Don Gray and Dan Starr Near the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, not far from where you think it should be, there really is a town called Mayberry. Although the main highway bypassed the town years ago, the namesake for the popular 1960s...
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© Don Gray 2000 – 2022 A problem can be a lot of things; perhaps a struggle, a puzzle, or a task. As a consultant, I find it useful to define “problem” as the difference between what is, and what is wanted. From that point of view, learning to solve...
