All Life Is Problem Solving

When the Senate cut Education Funding, Aid to the States, Aid to Low Income Families, Renewable Energy Investments, Health Information Technology, and Science Funding, all of which would have produced $.57 for each dollar invested, and, instead, increased wasteful tax cuts which will produce an additional $.02 gain on each dollar invested, I began to […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) Here are some other ways one can enhance problem seeking, recognition and formulation in organizations. First, Management can assist in moderating the natural fears of people by offering Problem Seeking, Recognition, and Communication “boot camps” to employees. The objective of these boot camps is to train people in: — specifying […]

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(From http://www.obamamites.com) In some previous political blogs, I’ve talked about getting bipartisanship the wrong way around, and how and why to get rid of the filibuster. In this blog, I want to intensify my message on these issues and also direct it to Barack Obama. Today, Paul Krugman weighed in on the Senate’s compromise “stimulus” […]

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The Republican Tax Cut wingnut, Steve Forbes, once said of the IRS: “The only thing we can do with this hideous beast is kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it, and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people!” While I don’t share this view in relation to the IRS, […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) Enhancing the power of an organization’s PSP is a matter of moving it toward the Open PSP from whatever position in phase space it is in. The Vision: Moving Toward the Open PSP Moving an organization’s PSP is driven fundamentally by re-focusing the attention of employees from implementing existing solutions […]

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Another Political Blog, I’m afraid. These may subside after awhile. But right now the dynamics of American Politics are awfully interesting, and I do think that this piece has some connection with problem solving and KM. Once again, Dick Cheney has disturbed the peace. In a transparent attempt to “salt the mine,” he has delivered […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) In his new book, Chasing the Rabbit, Steven Spear distinguishes highly adaptive organizations from others, terms them “rabbit organizations,” and, alternatively, “high-velocity organizations,” and develops a framework for identifying them. According to Spear, such organizations have four capabilities: 1) “Specifying Design to Capture Existing Knowledge and Building In Tests to […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) Here are four types of PSPs that may be found or approximated in organizations. The four are not a mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive classification of PSPs, but a categorization of types that one can use to begin to understand and explore the world of PSPs, or if you like, […]

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Robert Reich offered an interesting piece on the key turning point in the Administration’s economic program in the Washington Post today. I think that he’s right that Obama’s position on structuralism vs. cyclism and his ability to educate the public on structuralism and gain political support for it is critical for America’s future. Take a […]

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