Phil Windley's TechnometriaOrganizations Get the IT They DeserveBook Review: The Shield of Achilles- August 25, 2004 When I was at Supernova in June I had dinner one night with John Robb (former CEO of Userland) about his forthcoming book on Global Guerrillas. During the course of the conversation, he said something like "to understand the context of what terrorists are doing, you really ought to read Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles." I ordered it that night and I've found it fascinating. This isn't a technical book, its history. The subtitle of the book is "War, Peace, and the Course of...http://www.windley.com/archives/2004/08/book_review_the.shtml |