What this graphic and the underlying data analysis show more than anything else is how little evidence and rational analysis have to do with most decisions by most people. We can lament that all we want. If you’re running a lottery, you make money off this predictable irrationality. On the other hand, if you’re committed [...]
Tagged decision makingThe future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed William Gibson
A recent discussion about bad television science fiction versus what good science fiction can be illuminates the challenge of coping with today’s technology environment in everyday organizational reality.
It started with a recent speech by Star Trek writer Ron [...]
Liz Strauss offers up another of her provocative challenges; to craft 25 words of advice on social media.
Here’s my 25 words:
Social media wisdom, like all wisdom, comes from experience. Engaged, mindful, reflective experience. Deliberate and intentional practice will yield wisdom. Other experience need not apply.
The picture is of my coxswain son and his [...]
Tagged Liz Strauss, Social mediaI have got to meet danah boyd in real life one of these days. Her work, as revealed through her blogging, shows what can happen when you drop a well-trained, smart, and articulate observer into new environments. We all learn from her sharp attention to what is really going on. So much better than listening [...]
Here’s a fascinating animation reconstructing the flight of US Airways 1549 and overlaying the conversations between air traffic controllers and the flight crew. it really brings home the extraordinary job the crew did. A testament to the value of experience and training in responding to a crisis.
(h/t to Chris Carfi at the Social Customer Manifesto [...]
Tagged visualization[cross posted at FAST Forward blog]
How often do you run across organizations that claim they intend to be “fast followers” when it comes to some dimension of strategy and innovation? Maybe I’m simply cranky because it’s Monday, but is there any way to make sense of such an approach in operational terms? The image of [...]
Someday I’ll manage to get myself to a TED conference.In the meantime, I will continue to take advantage of the wonderful TED videos. Benjamin Zander is someone whose work on leadership I’ve appreciated in the past. The Art of Possibility, coauthored with his wife Rosamund Stone Zander, remains one of the most useful books on [...]
Tagged Benjamin Zander, leadershipOne of the many lovely things about blogging is the way that people redirect your attention to things you’ve looked at before; calling attention to important insights that you missed the first time around or have simply forgotten. Back in May, the folks at SIGNAL VS. NOISE pointed to a passage in Christopher Alexander’s A [...]
Tagged Alexander, expertiseDoing science is fundamentally a state of mind more than any particular set of tools or any particular domain of knowledge.
How do you know when you’re doing science wrong?
Easy:
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More in the same vein from xkcd.
Fostering these attitudes is increasingly relevant in organizational settings. We’re awash in data [...]
I’m sure this will be making the rounds. It’s a good reminder about the value of failure. I found this courtesy of Brad Feld. Thanks for sharing.
Famous Failures
Great, inspiring video on failure.
(thanks Scott).
