Thanks for the post. I agree with much of this, though if the 4 challenges are weighted greatest to least, I would put "Focus is on doing, not goals" at the top. I can't tell you how many times this one has turned honest wants and needs into good intentions and no execution. It could be the need to change a process, or the want to improve things like documentation and measurement; but at the end of the day all anyone focuses on is doing, because they know that is what is seen most, and what they are judged by on a daily basis.

Where geocentrism is concerned, I wouldn't chalk that one up to the power of metaphor, but rather a dose of hubris mixed with some active hostility to science. The power of the metaphor in question can always be attenuated upward by coming up with something ever more fanciful.