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A Regenerative Value System
https://youtu.be/u2nM9WLXZHM Lean thinking needs transformation, major expansion, and a basic shift in objectives – from improving operational efficiency to something much bigger: Continuous Regeneration of ourselves, our human economy, and of the natural world. All...
What We’re Reading: Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
What We’re Reading: Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First, by Frank Trentmann. Trentmann is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a prolific book writer. As an academic work,...
Illusory Objectives
https://youtu.be/WGuLENnrVwU Coffee With Doc: Losing Our Illusions What’s real and what’s illusion? A rock is real. If one hits us, we directly sense pain. But is a quarter real? As a little alloyed disc, it’s real. But how about the 25-cent value we attached to it?...
Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of Our Virtual Lives
What We’re Reading: Infinite Reality:The Hidden Blueprint of Our Virtual Lives, by Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson. While five years old, this book is a dated descriptor of where Virtual Reality is today as a technology, but it is as good as has been found as a...
The Art of the Question
https://youtu.be/65t9zOJC0Ww Twenty-five years ago, I tried to coach adult college students to seek and solve problems using the classic Deming PDCA Circle. In classrooms, students were unused to identifying their own problems rather than having them pre-defined. The...
The Ten Commandments of Propaganda
What We're Reading: The Ten Commandments of Propaganda by Brian Anse Patrick This review of Brian Patrick’s easy overview of a messy subject concludes with a twist at the end. Many books have been written about propaganda – or public relations today. Wily persuasion...
Fragmented Performance Measurement
How do we measure how a team is doing? By their game scores and won-lost record. Imagining any game without keeping score is hard. Without keeping score we are just having fun, or so we think. Serious training at least counts reps. From infancy on, we live with...
A Business Revolution: Doing Better with Less
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXHuVC8i4gM A Business Revolution: Doing Better with Less "Compression Thinking" is a distillation of 30 years of research by Robert W. "Doc" Hall, who explains his approach to business in this video. This is a new era, where resources...
A New Blue Sky
https://youtu.be/CsX0DbVtsVc Coffee With Doc: Propping Up The Sky Even before 2008, queasy economic forecasters projected financial meltdown of a global economy propped up by debt. Believers in unending growth accused any pessimistic prognosticator of being a Chicken...
Continuous Regeneration Problem Resolution
https://youtu.be/sTwwRlhYqRo . Continuous Regeneration Problem Resolution Most environmental actions today are incremental. We keep doing what we do, or aspire to do, but disturb nature a tad less while doing it, like switching to environmentally benign cleaning...
Continuous Regeneration
https://youtu.be/GwldqqWN2TU “Most of our problems arise from the difference between the way man thinks and the way nature works.” ---- Gregory Bateson “Compression” refers to the big squeeze on both our planet and on our economic system. Doubters say no problem...
Participate in a Global Learning Circle
We invite you to participate in a Global Learning Circle. https://youtu.be/Uymk5c5rKkk Coffee With Doc: Global Learning Circle The objective of a learning circle is to learn how to think freely and collectively. When it counts, escape the tyrannies of misapplied...
Should We Monetize Nature?
How can business thinking expand into wonderment about how it fits into nature? https://youtu.be/-rEhUcy5Oz0 Coffee With Doc: Monetizing Nature Land developments are often subject to environmental reviews, and the developers want a cost-benefit analysis. Such analysis...
Losing Our Bubble
https://youtu.be/81RLiO1cz4I Coffee With Doc, August 19, 2016, Software, 2:22 Minutes Losing Our Bubble Software systems are the quintessence of growing complexity in technological societies. Not only is a truly complex system intricate, it may be changing faster than...
Environmental Standards
Environmental Standards By Arthur B. Weissman, Ph.D., President and CEO, Green Seal For over fifty years the manufacturing sector has been bombarded by standards to improve it. The development of total quality management practices in the 1950s and 60s led to the ISO...
Beyond Bullxit
Beyond Bullxit – After Brexit, how do we form a clearly envisioned alternate system and cohesive theory of action? Subsequent updates will propose a v that might have a chance of success. Perhaps we can call this, “Beyond Bullxit.”
Crossing the Divide
Crossing the Divide – How do we transform to a regenerative system? Crossing the divide refers to giving up on an old system, and pressing on to create a new one, fully committed, realizing that there is no going back.
Financial Tremors: Digging into Traceable Signs of Impending Worldwide Financial Collapse
Global wake up call to prepare, rethink what value really means to us, and not just re-set the current financial system, but create a new one. Big earthquakes are usually preceded by small quakes, or tremors, and followed by aftershocks. However, tremors may fade...
Yogi in the Symbiocene: Simplifying the Complexity
How to wake up from the frozen haze to recognize voiceless Earth suffocating at the hands of corruption. Australian environmental professor Glenn Albrecht coins new words, lots of them. His reason: Trapped in the language of today, we cannot imagine a new...
Millstones of Progress
In a technological society many of us dream of being entrepreneurs, breaking out of rule-bound bureaucracies to try a new idea. However, a successful new organization has to deal with a world full of bureaucracy, so to do this, it grows its own administration. As it...