(originally posted on, ha, Facebook, June 3 2020)


(originally posted on, ha, Facebook, June 3 2020)
By request, the Facilitator’s Guide for “Stop Training, Start Schooling: Lessons from the Committed Sardines.” Committed Sardines Facilitator Guide 1-0
My mother is going to laugh a lot at the fact that I’m writing this post, even if she’ll never admit it to me. The idea that her son — who always used to get home late, sometimes knocking over the pots and pans that his father had set up against the door to announce […]
My friend Scott Barnes tagged me about this article on factors affecting pilots’ decisions to land. Scott’s share of this article reminds me of one more way in which my training as a Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor influences my business consulting practices. In aviation, we don’t think of an aborted landing as merely a landing that […]
The rules of the post-WWII economy are becoming less relevant. Ben Thompson offers a view of what we could hope will replace it: …instead of trying to recreate a 1950s fantasy of employment for life on an assembly line, the goal should be to create a far more dynamic labor market with a defined floor […]
No, even though 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, I’m not talking about James T. Kirk and the starship Enterprise. I’m talking about Captain James A. Kirk and the USS Zumwalt, America’s “largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyer.” The Zumwalt grabbed my attention when it was commissioned earlier this month because not only is it larger, more powerful, and stealthier than current destroyers, […]
In the previous section, we explored how technology can potentially free up capability. On a high-tech destroyer or in cyber-security, tech can “raise the game” of people in the enterprise. Technology offers tireless, rapid, low-variance behavior. That doesn’t necessarily mean more intelligent behavior. Lesson 2. Automation Is Necessary, But Not Sufficient One of my first jobs was loading magnetic […]
In “Same Sheet, Different Data“, we saw how subordinating human intelligence to technology is a failure to “raise the game.” The story of the Zumwalt highlights another opportunity of work in the 21st century: raising the game means that much of traditional management effort is waste. Lesson 3. Reduce the Wasted Effort of Traditional Management Technology on […]