Quality is the manifestation of care and concern for the expression of human potential through one’s work—making a job a joy.
Archive for November, 2009
The Spirit of Quality
Posted in Progress, Quality, tagged Critical Thinking, human spirit, management, organizational design, Problem Solving, Quality on November 28, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Hey Einstein, Solve This!
Posted in Problem Solving, Progress, tagged Complexity, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Learning, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking on November 21, 2009 | 15 Comments »
The Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm that informed the Industrial Revolution has provided a way for us to order our world, solve problems and realize tremendous benefit. Accordingly our gain in knowledge and associated technological prowess have provided us the ability to develop many different scientific fields, explore the far reaches of outer space, improve medical care—adding years to our life expectancy—and also to destroy the world with a push of a button.
The Courage for Leadership to Emerge
Posted in Leadership, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Leadership, partnership, Progress on November 14, 2009 | 14 Comments »
What we believe to be true to a large extent is socially constructed. Accordingly, in Western society we tacitly learn to believe that the main purpose in life is to acquire as much as we can. While there is no truth to the adage the one who dies with the most toys wins, it seems [...]
Misplaced Blame
Posted in Economy, Progress, tagged Critical Thinking, Economy, Progress, Systems Thinking on November 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In January 2009 Wall Street investment bank executives willfully accepted millions of dollars in bonuses—an estimated 20 billion dollars worth—in spite of the fact that they precipitated our current economic troubles.
Leadership Involves We, Not Me
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Leadership, partnership, Progress on November 1, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Leadership can’t be defined as a characteristic of an individual since it is an emergent property of the relationship between individuals. In short, leadership has to do with a ‘We’ and not with a ‘Me’. Analogously, neither hydrogen nor oxygen has the characteristic of wetness, yet water is wet. There can be no leadership with (just) one individual!
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