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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...