I’ve not read Stephen Prothero’s recent book “God is Not One.” But, listening to him interviewed last night I was much attracted to his list. What each of the eight major world religions treat as their big problem, and what their solution is. Religion Problem Solution Buddhism suffering awakening Christianity sin salvation Confucianism chaos [...]
Makes sense to me: Knowledge stocks -> Knowledge Flows Knowledge transfer -> Knowledge Creation Explicit Knowledge -> Tacit Knowledge Transactions -> Relationships Zero Sum Mindset -> Positive Sum Mindset Push Programs -> Pull Programs Scalable Efficiency -> Scalable Peer Learning Stable Environments -> Dynamic Environments I’ve not read the book. Three things I might wonder about [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t put this list in my collection of frameworks. These are the eight ways to untrain a bad behavior, from Karen Pryor’s Don’t Shoot the Dog. Shoot the dog Punishment Negative reenforcement Extinction Train an incompatible behavior Put the behavior on cue Shape the absence Change the motivation Number 6 is [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
I was working with someone a while back who was in the midst of advocating for an alternative approach inside his organization. He was frustrated. He was deeply convinced of the benefits of his new approach and frustrated by his colleagues passivity. My first thought was to recall a few of my lists, for example [...]
Why do we read those blogs, email, chats, twitter, voice mails, newspapers, magazines, etc. etc. Presumably there is some logic to that. Some motivational schema. There’s money in the answer to this question. Will my students pay attention? Will my novel be a hit? Will my newspaper survive? So, surely this question has [...]
Fun video by Barry Swartz author of “The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less”. Why choice makes people miserable: regret over the choice not taken, and fear of that future regret, the cost of managing a portfolio of options, the benchmark for success is raised higher, i.e. expectations escalate self blame, when the [...]
From “The Fundamental Templates of Quality Ads” (pdf). Pictorial Analogy Replacement Extreme analogy Extreme Situation Absurd alternatives Extreme Attribute Extreme Worth Consequences Extreme consequences Inverted consequences Competition Attribute in competitition Worth in competition Uncommon Use Interactive Experiment Activation Imaginary Experiment Dimensionality New Parameter Connection Multiplication Division Time Leap
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
As requests go “How long will it take?” is one of the tough ones. Taleb’s book Black Swan makes an thought provoking point about it. Like most of that book the underlying question is what statistical distribution the data is drawn. Naturally, that should color our expectations. Some project durations are reasonable, Gaussian. How long [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
A short but interesting posting that helped liberate an idea for me. Globalization’s fans claim the market for much of their ethical underpinnings. The market is good; globalization is an example of the spreading reach of markets, hence it’s a wonderful thing. But, but. It seems to me that it’s just not that simple. It [...]
Saturday, January 5, 2008
I like threes and I’m currently quite interested in how we manage (pilot?) our attention. How we make our choices. how we decide what to do. So I liked the intro to Kahneman and Lovallo’s 1993 paper on how “decision makers” go about their work. The paper is introducing a behavioral model for that, [...]
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