Time on a treadmill is boring, so I try to find interesting stuff to watch. I was watching the lecture series World War II: Battlefield Europe, presented by David Stone who teaches at the U.S. Naval War College. This series looks at WW II from a European perspective, but I was surprised that the series…
we need to intercept the future!
Buck Rogers was a science fiction adventure hero introduced to the U.S. public in a newspaper comic-strip on January 7, 1929. A year later, January 22, 1930, Buck first ventured into space aboard a rocket ship in his fifth newspaper comic story Tiger Men from Mars. Our love of space and adventure has been with us…
It’s a wicked world and we need better thinking to survive.
You work within a set of nested boxes and it’s your job to keep them mentally aligned. Otherwise, you’ll be blind to emerging problems and opportunities. Plan on spending 90 minutes every quarter with your team to discuss the implications of changes in the larger environments that might affect your plans and decisions. Work on…
I recently presented my case for becoming a thinking generalist. However, I’d like to modify that title a bit and rename this person a Pragmatic Thinker. As stated last time, Pragmatic Thinkers incorporate the essentials of five schools of thought into their daily lives. Critical thinking – because we must evaluate evidence and arguments. Skepticism…
First, a quick quiz. What do they have in common? Well, obviously, they are no longer needed. But ponder this – these businesses were managed by experienced, educated, well paid, and (supposedly) smart people. What went wrong? Why did they disappear? I suggest that poor quality thinking is at the heart of the decisions they…
There is this cool, but complicated, thinking machine that sits between your two ears. You might think it looks like a grey blob, but I imagine it as a rather interesting machine that produces a custom version of “my truth.” Maybe it looks like this: Rin Duong You’ll note that the inputs to the machine…
In an earlier post I explained the need to think in a set of six nested boxes rather than simply “outside the box.” Context: a set of boxes Here is a set of boxes shown with some of their component parts. These parts change and interact in an amoral sense – not good, not bad….
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