Dave Meslin’s talk reminds me somewhat of the sentiment of Edwards Deming’s proclamation that 96% of of all business problems are created by the system. Individuals want to do a good job, the system provides barriers to stop them.
#4 Heros I relate to my blog entry “As if you needed a Reason to Save the [...]
If you are intent on Saving the World do you take a Top Down or Bottom Up approach?
Bottom up, as in, rally people to a cause. Get at least some enthused enough to take some action. i.e. Change to buying energy efficient light bulbs. Excellent work but when you do the numbers pretty ineffectual in [...]
I’ve not posted a new Blog for a while because I’ve been playing an online game called UrgentEvoke. I came across it through following a Linkedin group called Social Impact Games. The objective of the Game was to “Save the World” although I note from their latest Home page they are now purporting to only [...]
The following is a TED talk by Dan Pink. Sixty years ago Edward Deming understood the strange counter-intuitive results of experiment Dan explains and railed against the motivational techniques being used in business. Are we finally coming of Age?
Twelve and a half minutes minutes in he speaks of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
The business tools to [...]
Thought I’d take a few minutes to answer Seth Godin’s survey to see if I could get more clarity on what I’m doing with Kahatika.
From his latest blog 8 questions and why we get
Who are you trying to please?
Myself
Why? – Highest in the hierarchy of needs, Self-actualisation
What are you promising?
To “Save the World”
Why? – Seemed [...]
I seem to concerned about Love but what is my concern for Money?
Ahh! I see, you’re a conspiracy theory nut blaming the banking industry and big business for the woes of the world!
Not at all, just trying to reveal just how controlling the money system is, and how that impacts on our ability to exhibit [...]
If the role of business is to identify an others pain and offer a cost effective solutions to that pain, one would suspect compassion would have a major role in business.
Should more businesses be embedding, or at least deriving inspiration from a Charter for Compassion when formulating the company mission and standard operating procedures?
Does the [...]
Despite all the complicated Systems and Mechanisms our society institutes to reduce the need for trust, our day to day lives are manageable only because we do trust.
We trust that the oncoming traffic will stay on their side of the road, we trust that the money we give to the banks will be available to [...]
You can imagine with a goal or mission to “Save the World”, especially when you are not certain that it even needs saving, that the journey along the way becomes pretty important.
You’ve got to like the process. You have to enjoy pondering things. You have to find it interesting connecting disparate things together and deriving [...]
In the early 1980′s I climbed out of my teens, I entered the workforce and started to learn how business worked. As part of a company following the flavour of the month management philosophy I was put through W. Edwards Deming Institute’s training program. Being young and impressionable I thought the philosophy was excellent. I [...]
