We are not always great at learning from each other, together with each other, from history, or from other documented bodies of knowledge. We too often subject too poor models too soon to reality. An important reason is that we seem to have an aversion to inquiry.
Management
Of memes, machines and modified behavior
I’m reading Susans Blackmores book “The Meme Machine”. It starts where Richard Dawkins left off at the end of his seminal book “The Selfish Gene”. Dawkins of course talked mostly about the gene as the “thing” that evolution revolves around but towards the end of his book he speculated about Continue Reading
A false dichotomy
It is not so easy to divide a problem into the often used categories “what” and “how”.
The subjective business of risk assessment
We are very poor at assessing risk.
Climbing Mt Complexity
Everybody is looking for quick fixes to complex problems, especially if the problem initially doesn’t look all that complex and a fix is needed yesterday. Unfortunately quick fixes (with emphasis on the “fix” part) to complex problems are rare.
What can we learn from the world’s oldest culture?
The Nhunggabarra people of Australia created the first knowledge-based economy.
Delegates to conference on global warming froze their butts off
On the role of emotions in leading and promoting change.
Change leaders and the Nobel Prize
What does it take to be an effective change leader?
Faith and pain, part two
Organizational improvement should be integrated in the daily operations and the corporate culture and be done in increments.
The purpose of your next presentation
The only valid reason for communication in a business setting is to change the behavior of your audience.