Jim McGee

I'm a consultant, entrepreneur, and periodic academic.

I subscribe to Eric Raymond's take on "hacking" as the quest for elegant, low-cost, fixes to complex problems. The problems that interest me occur at the intersection of technology and organizations.

I have academic credentials in statistics (AB), management/strategy (MBA), and organizational design (PhD). I've worked both sides of the practice/academia fence, both serially and in parallel. I currently teach "Understanding Organizational Efectiveness" (syllabus - pdf) at DePaul's School for New Learning. In 2001, I designed and led a course in knowledge management at Northwestern's Kellogg School. I believe it was the first business school course to include student blogs as part of the course. That was a mixed success, but did result in taking my blog, McGee's Musings, public in October 2001.

The world has plenty of "wicked problems" to handle and we all need to get better at how we work together - communicating, coordinating, cooperating, and collaborating -to tame those problems. That will take a mix of technology, skill, practice, experience, and theory to pull off. We will develop this capacity by tackling problems and sharing what we learn with others on their own journey.