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Value
"As business executives increasingly find value in improving their
historical perspective, they are turning to professional business historians
who know what to look for, who to ask and how to present the best lessons
learned. 'History allows us to reinterpret the past in a way that's relevant
today--it helps us learn from the mistakes and successes of the past,' says
Glenn Bugos, principal historian at a Redwood City, Calif.-based firm that
specializes in helping companies create historical narratives." CIO
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Fluent
“Bugos, a skilled historian of technology, tells the tale not only
of its design but of its bureacratic history--how the air force came to
adopt a navy aircraft; how other nations decided to purchase it; and what
role it had in deciding the outcome of various conflicts. This, in short,
is a model of technological history, fluently written and accessible to
a much broader audience.” Eliot A. Cohen, in his review of Engineering
the F-4 Phantom in Foreign Affairs, 1996 |
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Pith
"…And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action." William Shakespeare, Hamlet III, i |
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Rhyme
“History never repeats itself; but sometimes it rhymes.” Mark Twain. |
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