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Out of the Flotsam
Out of the Flotsam
Expecting employees to do what you know how to do without sharing your knowledge and experience is functional team and organizational suicide albeit at a glacial pace. Managers or more appropriately personnel put into supervisory positions without leadership skills often lack the ability to transfer information enabling others to do what’s expected of them. This is exacerbated by organizations…
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Scar Tissue
I happened across an editorial by Dan Dumbacher, AIAA Executive Director, in the Aerospace America magazine published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The title was “Scar Tissue” and the large font tag line was “…we must not allow the scar tissue of past failures to hold us back from meeting the complex challenges of the future.” It captured my attention to say…
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Consumption
Information is the lifeblood of every organization. As in an organization, so in our bodies nutrients get transported from area to area enabling the entire organism to live and more importantly integrate and adapt to its present conditions. No matter what organizational structure exists or the level of organizational maturity, the flow of information determines how successful we are. Rapid…
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Culture from Character
We the people more than often fail to recognize the different levels of system integration we exist within. As individuals, our character is the emergent property of our physical, mental, and spiritual system. Our character is primarily expressed not through our beliefs and ideas but our behaviors and interactions. The decisions we make stem from our thoughts and belief systems we hold onto and…
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A Divorce From Work
A Divorce From Work
‘It’s better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.” –Alfred Lord Tennyson This is true of any relationship including our bodies, minds, friends, lovers and yes even our work. I’ve been struggling with what and how to write about recent events at work. In the last few months, I lost a love of twenty years and am already entering into a new relationship (i.e. separated from work and…
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Striving To Be Normal
Striving To Be Normal, how vetted and applied information can fundamentally improve our lives.
I had diabetes as well as high blood pressure and cholesterol. Let me stress the key word in the previous sentence, “had.” Managing the business of you involves ensuring we have resources to do what we need to do with our limited time, energy and attention in this life time. A key resource is obviously our health but there’s another just as important if not more which is our ingestion of…
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Interviewing For Our Jobs
Interviewing For Our Jobs
How would you react to being told you will be interviewing for your own job? Would the situation impact your self worth? A friend told me that he saw many interview for their jobs in bigger aerospace companies. Often these interrogation panels were often motivated by politics amongst the VIPs. So what would your reaction be. Perhaps you’re a twenty year old and would simply say, “Fuck this,…
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The Leadership Bridge
Leadership, like character, is different for each individual. It doesn’t matter if we are autocratic, authoritative, pacesetting, democratic, coaching, affiliative, or laissez-fair style leaders; we all have our particular approach. Our leadership style may be different between work, home and social lives as well. No matter whether we pick one approach or mix it up in an attempt to be appropriate…
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Remembering Who We Are
Remembering Who We Are
There are times we need reminded of who we are and what value we bring to others. I recently went to lunch with some very good friends. I could call them old friends as I’ve known them for nearly 20 years and they are older than me. So, truly, they are old friends. This get together was on the heels of an interaction at work with a leader of mine the day prior. This leader asked me to be more…
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Communication's Value
Communication’s Value
Passionate, principled, and idealistic are attributes that can get us hired in the jobs we want. On the other side of the sword these attributes can get us fired from the jobs we have. It comes down to how we use these attributes and more specifically the energy we derive from them. Each of our interactions has the potential to succeed or fail based on how we convey the information for the…
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Interest In Conflict
I find it interesting that the people who help those striving for social justice fall under the microscope themselves. It’s as if by assisting the change they become the problem. This attention on the facilitators is misplaced. We look at the surface of the issue without asking why and seeking the root cause. One of the potential causes is lack of perspective and attention directed to the larger…
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Adjust Your TEA
It’s been a while since my last post. Focusing on healing from a second knee surgery and then rolling into quarantine has consumed my time, energy and attention (TEA). There’s only so much TEA we can consume in a day and thus our biz adapts to its constraints.
Social media is all about the pandemic. Managing our consumption of the overwhelming information as well as misinformation is something…
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My Old Friend
A couple of very good friends like the following letter to an old friend. I hope you will as well.
Death my old friend. You are always so quiet but always there ready to give guidance unlike your sibling, life, who knows no end to expressing the desire to connect and grow. We walk through our days together going on about having purpose and meaning. Perhaps we would make wiser choices if you…
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The Unspoken Quality Tool
The Unspoken Quality Tool
An experienced auditor uses this tool to elicit more information than necessary. Quality engineers use it during investigations of anomalies to bring pertinent information to the surface. Quality inspectors use it during source inspections at a supplier to give the space for details not captured in the paperwork. And, quality managers use this tool to help other functional managers discover what…
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Problem Principles
Our ability to deal with our problems is directly related to how we think about our problems. This reflection occurred to me after spending time educating quality engineers on the first principles of quality at the organization we work for. Building spacecraft presents myriad issues ranging from simple rework back to print requirement to complex problems requiring investigation and many levels of…
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Time to Evolve
Our thinking has not adapted to our modern environment. We still keep to our hierarchal relationships at work and power struggles at home. We worship the heroes and heroines in media, culture, and our work. This way of life has worked and why we still cling to it like suckling babes. The human species is spread over the Earth as a fabric covers that satiated sleeping babe. Social media reveals we…
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Knowledge Bullies & System Prophets
Knowledge Bullies & System Prophets
The amount of confirmation and negativity bias used by leaders to sway personnel to their point of view is alarming some days. In a meeting they may even have someone pull up data and looking at one data point tell everyone how it shows their supposition is correct. Occasionally, someone who has some inclining of statistics and probability asks, “What’s the denominator?” Or, “Where does that data…
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