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Fearing The Bogyman
Posted in Life, Problem Solving, Progress, tagged Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Progress on June 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When the First Step is a Misstep
Posted in Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, tagged Complexity, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Problem solving involves many steps, with each requiring decision-making before proceeding to the next toward ultimately resolving the issue. While each step is important, when problems are complex the most critical is the first because it is among the most difficult. In simple or structured problem situations the issue is quite self-evident, but in complex [...]
Want to Improve Quality, Listen Up
Posted in Problem Solving, Quality, tagged Critical Thinking, Leadership, Learning, management, organizational design, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on March 7, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Often those with authority over a system/organization—frequently referred to as ‘the leadership’—use the thing they believe is valued by most as a way of resolving a complex problem such as quality. That is, they throw money at it! Since money is the thing we greatly value, then what better way to demonstrate commitment to quality [...]
Insights from the Impoverished
Posted in Education, Life, Problem Solving, Progress, tagged Change, Development of Self, Economy, Education, human spirit, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, relationships, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on March 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In a recent HuffingtonPost article David Chura brings to light the affect that poverty, despair and hopelessness have on people, especially during the formative years. When individuals grow up in an environment within which such dark currents flow, they feel trapped and, as David Chura relates, a way out is likely imperceptible.
Data Should Lead to Understanding
Posted in Problem Solving, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking, tagged Complexity, Decision-making, Learning, Problem Solving, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking, Variation on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In a Baseline Scenario article titled Bad Data James Kwak stated, “to make a vast generalization, we live in a society where quantitative data are becoming more and more important. Some of this is because of the vast increase in the availability of data, which is itself largely due to computers. Some is because of [...]
Better Thinking Leads To Better Solutions
Posted in Education, Problem Solving, tagged Critical Thinking, Decision-making, human spirit, Learning, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality on February 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What might be the cause of the misuse or misinterpretation of research about education recently brought to light by Alfie Kohn in his January 28th article “Do tests really help students learn or was a new study misreported?” Could this be evidence of what is being learned or not learned in the educational system? Might [...]
Fiddling as Rome Burns
Posted in Economy, Life, Problem Solving, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Economy, Problem Solving, Progress, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why are we always solving the same issue yet calling it something else? Answer: A systemic problem manifests as different symptoms, yet we focus only on the symptoms and never the system of causes. We do this because in general: we react to the symptom-of-the-moment; we are lead by fear not understanding; and we don’t [...]
Either/Or Thinking
Posted in Management, Problem Solving, Statistical Thinking, tagged Decision-making, Learning, management, Problem Solving, Statistical Thinking, Variation on October 20, 2010 | 11 Comments »
The Newtonian-Cartesian dualism that informed the development of our socio-economic system also guides us to think in dichotomous or dualistic terms—win/lose, us/them, liberal/conservative, profit/loss, good/bad, favorable/unfavorable—and also to believe that if something is not quantifiable it isn’t important. Such thinking promotes judgment of experience not learning from experience. Because of this either/or habit of thought [...]
Ethically Sound Action
Posted in Life, Morality/Ethics, Problem Solving, tagged Decision-making, Development of Self, Ethical Principles, Moral Values on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ethical decisions are difficult because they involve value-centered life issues that cannot be grasped solely through empirical/objective means. Since there is more to life than spending, getting, and having life must not be equated to the amount of material wealth we amass. There have been instances where the numbers was the guide and the results [...]
Financial Quake
Posted in Economy, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, tagged Critical Thinking, Economy, Learning, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking on August 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Given the impact many of the financial crises have had, several econophysicists have tried to understand them in the same way as geophysicists view and study earthquakes. In essence these econophysicists are seeking to model financial tremors in order to predict and prepare for future seismic financial quakes.
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