1. Happy 50! 26April2006

2. Malcom McLean

3. Containerization

4. Lessons Need-driven A thousand “parents” Messy Evolutionary “Trivial” Experimentation trial & ERROR Loooong time for systemic adaptation/s (many innovations) (bill of lading, standard time) Not … “Plan-driven” The product of “Strategic Thinking/Planning” The product of “focus groups”

5. Get mad. Do something about it. Now.

6. Related Addendum

7. First-level Scientific Success The “smartest guy in the room wins” Or …

8. First-level Scientific Success Fanaticism Persistence-Dogged Tenacity Patience (long haul/decades) -Impatience (in a hurry/”do it yesterday”) Passion Energy Relentlessness (Grant-ian) Enthusiasm Driven (nuts!) (Brutal?) Competitiveness Entrepreneurial Pragmatic (R.F!A.) Scrounge (“gets” the logistics-infrastructure bit) Master of Politics (internal-external) Tactical Genius Pursuit of (Oceanic) Excellence! High EQ/Skillful in Attracting + Keeping Talent/Magnetic Prolific (“ground up more pig brains”) Egocentric Sense of History-Destiny Futuristic-In the Moment Mono-dimensional (“Work-life balance”? Ha!) Exceptionally Intelligent Exceptionally Clever (methodological shortcuts/methodological genius) Luck