This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
"Blockhead is a classic game in which players take turn piling wooden block atop each other until the whole edifice topples; the last player to have placed a block loses."
...and goes on to describe the software version of the game, in which pieces of code are piled upon one another until the function comes crashing down, unfixable.
There's another version that I've observed, in which an organization's management reacts to every unforeseen event or problem with band-aid policies, processes, or measurements, resulting in a mishmash of conflicting, debilitating, and sub-optimizing behaviors.
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