So I was handed the following books by one of my project managers today…

• The One Minute Manager
• Managing Projects – Harvard Business School Press
• Leading Teams – Harvard Business School Press
• Running Meetings – Harvard Business School Press

I guess I’m at that stage in the life of every little tadpole techno nerd kid who one day becomes an engineer somewhere and then goes on to become a senior engineer and then one day finds themselves reading the Harvard Business School Press.   So I’m walking back to my little office feeling a tad elated somehow.   It’s always Very Nice to know your employer wants to keep and nurture you.   Plus, it’s good to find new challenges.   Your brain needs challenge if you’re not to get simply old and tired and set in your ways.   You just can’t let your one life slide on past you like that.   Yes…this is all well and good.   Except I’m walking back to my little corner of the Institute and this line from a song I haven’t recalled since I was a teenager suddenly bubbles up from somewhere in the shag carpet basement of my brain…

…Find out I’m the chosen one
Oh noooooo!

Ever since The One Minute Manager first came out, something deep down inside of me would get a tad irritated every time I laid eyes on its cover.   Any art you can teach in a minute cannot be that worthwhile.   Is this why so many bosses are idiots? And now here I am reading the damn thing.     But the Harvard stuff looks good actually.   And…I guess I need to know this stuff now…

Life goes on…