Interesting vision of the future of work

Interesting vision of the future of work; not very convincing based on its view of the speed of transformation.  He really thinks that in a matter of 15 years that the 7B people in the world are going to be driven by robot cars?

His imagination fails when it comes to implementation

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Nice article on corporate training traits: applies to OD practitioners/process consultants as well

 

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Nice article on corporate training traits: applies to OD practitioners/process consultants as well

 

especially useful for OD practitioners using Schein’s process consultation model, in their role as capacity builders, and condition setters

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The Challenge of truth telling in the Army profession

Click to access PUB1178.pdf

If a large organization like the Army which is so renowned for the quality and caliber of its leadership and integrity as difficulties with different levels of command and leaders telling the truth to each other, how much of an unseen force is the lack of candor in commercially-based organizations where there is more self-interest among individuals?

How important is it to the culture of the organization that people can tell the truth without fear of repercussions? If that’s not one of the cultural values of the organization, what are the implications going to be for large-scale transformations that require honest and open communication?

How do we break that political and cultural barrier?

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Congratulations to Argentina and Germany to play for World Cup tomorrow.

I definitely think the two best teams in the tournament made the finals. Nice work with Netherlands completing their tournament with the professional and thorough defeat of Brazil. I would like to see Roberto Martinez coach Brazil’s national team, I think his commentary throughout the World Cup has been phenomenal and inspirational. I really admire his love and understanding of the game. He’s the kind of coach the players want to play for

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Photo 238/365: Lesson plan book #edugood (Photo credit: buistbunch)

 

this echoes what I found in my dissertation work: that blog writings, even though fueled by passion, were not acknowledged (still aren’t) as academic writing in journals.

Similarly, professional craft-work writing, like lesson plans, is also undervalued, even though lesson plans that are taught by 100 faculty peers, and which go thru the wringer of 1500 students annually, are among the most intensely peer reviewed of all writings, since people actually have to use them

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Daytrading beliefs

Cover of Richard Feynman

Cover of Mark Twain

Matt asked:

From: Matth<snip>
To: Ken Long <longke@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 8:11 PM
Subject: Beliefs

Hi Ken:

          Been working on on my mission statements and business trading plan. I would like to model you – day trading (if you have no objections)

What are your beliefs that I could/should find useful.

Thanks Matt

===========================

my preliminary answer

i am on a journey of eliminating beliefs, trying to show cause why ANY belief is necessary as opposed to accumulating beliefs

i believe therefore that a couple essential beliefs are helpful; maybe these are attitudes more than beliefs:

1. Ask: what’s the evidence for this belief? Why is it necessary to have a belief on this subject?

2. What is a proper degree of confidence to hold on the basis of the evidence available?

3. What are the limits of the belief?  or alternatively:  how robust is this belief?

or, from a constructivist perspective: what is the utility of this belief-structure? What are the characteristics of the scaffolding? What does it allow me to do?

or Practically:

if you look at my daily and weekend report, I would say that each indicator/report-chunk is there because I have some belief that they have information content

or Specifically:

each published system has statements of core beliefs, assumptions, models, rules that stand together as a whole

the RFA e-book has a ton of things that might reward the research

my video on “Edges” recorded at an IITM workshop is probably a useful collection of beliefs

i have a very strong belief in the sayings of  Mark Twain with respect to human nature and behavior and in the sayings found in the complete book of Murphy’s Law when it comes to mankind trying to exert mastery over Nature, like “Measure with a micrometer, mark with a crayon, cut with an axe”

a lot of beliefs could be found in the chatroom archives where i respond to questions.  I find that questions push me to articulate beliefs out of the messy stew of ideas in my head at any time

whatever my belief sets  contain has to be large enough to stretch from the sparse beliefs and rules of the Frog to the increasingly complex RLCO-SQC framework

i am more interested in “intentional” action than I am in trying to find some kind of grand theory of everything for  daytrading; that’s in line with Feynman‘s belief that he was not trying to find ultimate truth, but rather simply trying to find out more about how the world works. I think that’s a healthy belief

i have a belief in the trade frames i make when i am preparing to act.  i believe they represent reasonable reward: risk ratio opportunities.  I believe that the habit of framing consistently builds proficiency an effective action/mental muscle memory and that over time provides an effective way to internalize adaptive judgement

start with the frog and RLCO frameworks; watch the live trading tapes and listen to my commentary for a belief set, especially when i am marking up the charts to try to create sense, sense enough to act

probably not the specific answer you were looking for, but it’s a start

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STEM vs liberal arts as preparation for the life of the mind

it used to be we said that liberal arts education provided us the broad creative and critical thinking skills that prepared people for a life of the mind in a challenging and changing world, but I would make the other argument: that STEM is better general preparation for the kinds of rigorous evidence-based thinking that we need to handle chaos and complexity

Attorney general disregarding the rule of law to fan racial flames

Classic and typical behavior.  Combine this with champion race-baiter Al Sharpton planning his Summer of Flames tour and you have to wonder what other evidence is required to establish  charges of “inciting a riot”?  The “Reverend” gives televangelists and other carney barkers a bad name

Democratic lawmaker received the Paula Deen treatment for his racist remarks in 3,2,1…

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Don’t worry, big government is here to protect you

He wont be seeing sunlight anytime soon.   But hey, dont worry about your big government, Obama assures us that nothing can go wrong.  I hear the NSA administraito

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rs are going to be going over to the IRS administraitor offices to help them run their programs too, or is it the other way around?

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