“I trust thee…I trust thee not”

vocalizations

Trust depends in part on your hunger to learn. Yarak, a falconry term, teaches us a great deal about trust and how trust influences effective risk management. . . . → Read More: “I trust thee…I trust thee not”

Grand Chamber hits a home run for families

Honesty in the Marketplace of Ideas

If you and I were shopping for a car, dear reader, we would take umbrage at any dealer that told us what we had to buy. Even more emphatically would we vote with our wallets against any dealership that told us we could not buy . . . → Read More: Grand Chamber hits a home run for families

Beauty is only skin deep…or is it?

Earlier posts and tweets have introduced the reality that when culture encounters physics, physics wins. It stands to reason that when a cultural fad encounters a physical reality, that tangible reality wins, whether or not it is in step with whatever politically-motivated whim of the moment is breaking across the bow of . . . → Read More: Beauty is only skin deep…or is it?

The Risk is in the Mirror

At the risk (pun intended) of being pilloried as the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, I’ve been brimming over with comments about some of the articles on business risk that I’ve been reading. Not sure which is a greater hazard, the one writing or those of us reading.

Let’s take this topper . . . → Read More: The Risk is in the Mirror

Two Brief Ideas: innovation joy and spiffing up Eventbrite

I’m developing the discipline to post more often, so I’ve put these two ideas together, because neither was really enough for a post.

Innovation Joy

Who would ever have thought that redeeming IRA shares could be described as a wonderful experience? Just got off the phone with the no-load industry leader (yep, . . . → Read More: Two Brief Ideas: innovation joy and spiffing up Eventbrite

Reflections on Theology of the Body, Part I

As we begin this new year, I’m going to publish some reflections on reclaiming the market square for faith and family. Fostering a family-friendly workplace specifically involves transcending the grand claims made by multi-cultural advocates (MCA). Policies advanced under this MCA worldview result in soggy solutions that are no substitute for the real work of forging partnerships among peoples and across cultures. Soggy solutions are rife with residual risks. . . . → Read More: Reflections on Theology of the Body, Part I

Celebrating a New Vision, part 2

Whoa there! Yeah, you with the Elvis hairdo. Put down the muffin. Seems like you’ve had a few too many wassails of good cheer. Back away from the dessert tray. Keep your hands where I can see them […tense pause with heightened background music] Ok, that’s better. Now go sit in the . . . → Read More: Celebrating a New Vision, part 2

Celebrating a New Vision with a New Lens: transcending differences to see farther and achieve more

This Christmas post is intended to be provocative, so if this riles you up, you’re welcome! However, it will be provocative not with vice but with virtue. …how many role models does a champion need? Just one. [Part 1 of two parts] . . . → Read More: Celebrating a New Vision with a New Lens: transcending differences to see farther and achieve more

First Out, Then Back as a novel throughput model

This morning Ari Meisel and I traded emails on a design topic from an uncommon point-of-origin. We’d originally connected through his post on Entrepreneur’s week. In process flow, there are two main divisions: FIFO, or first-in, first-out and LIFO, last-in, first-out. FIFO applies when a pipe is open on both ends,

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A walk in the forest…

Systems Thinking teaches us how to scale our perspective to study the forest or the trees, while Systems Engineering tells us what to do with the data we find.

Visitors: Where in the World?