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 [...]
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 [...]
Tagged InnovationSomeday 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: Read the comments on this post… More in the same vein from xkcd. Fostering these attitudes is increasingly relevant in organizational settings. We’re [...]
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).
Courtesy of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog. Someday, I’d love to get time to go back and learn the physics and math that I once knew. Motion MountainInspiring physics textbook This is not your father’s physics textbook. It is the self-published 1,500-page (!!), still-unfinished physics textbook written and designed by your polymath genius uncle who [...]
Greg Lloyd at Traction Software also picks up on the same JP Rangaswami post that I did yesterday. He offers several additional examples of the value of making knowledge work visible as a simple tool for supporting on the job learning. Here’s one of his many useful insights. Go read the rest. Learn by watching – Then [...]
One of the recent additions to my feed subscriptions is Confused of Calcutta by JP Rangaswami. Recently, he’s been thinking about Facebook and its potential role in Enterprise settings. Today’s installment has an interesting riff on the nature of knowledge management. It dovetails nicely with some of the things I’ve had to say about visibility [...]
The critical leverage point for an organization seeking more effective innovation is establishing new attitudes toward curiosity. Industrial organizations were optimized to extract value from tiny doses of curiosity and cannot tolerate larger doses. Today’s organizations require more frequent and intensive invention and innovation, which depends in turn on learning to foster and effectively channel [...]
