There are four cats in the faculty of management that I know of. This one is my favorite.

She usually comes to me when I call her and is always very friendly - a very rare phenomena with cats- . I wanted to name a cat after a management guru ever since I’ve read a book about “artificial intelligence” where every example was about a cat named “Minsky” which refers to “Marvin Minsky” who is one of the founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence. It was very cool because the examples in the book would go like:

Minsky is a cat; therefore Minsky has four legs.

The logic would go like this:

If Cat(Minsky)=true Then put Legs(Minsky)=4

I don’t know about you but I find that amusing. Yes! that’s how geeky I am sometimes.

I really wanted to name it “Mintzberg” but -and accidentally not that I touched anything- found out it was not a “He”. Plus, Henry Mintzberg teaches at McGill and I’m applying to McGill and things could get very very ugly.

So, I had only two options left. Mary Parker Follett and Lillian Gilbreth. I am very fond of Follet. I have a complete set of her works in my library and actually feel some sympathy for her since she was never appreciated when she was alive. Her Ideas are 16 generations ahead of her time (now we are in generation eight.)

I decided to name her Mary Follet but for some reason she didn’t look like a Mary. I don’t know about you but I hear Mary; I go for Jesus. If Mr. Jesus hears I named a black cat the same as her mother he is going to be pissed and he is friendlier with God than I am. I even though of naming it God but it would create much confusion.

So, Say hello to “Lillian Moller Gilbert II”.