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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge? Eli Goldratt ‘The Choice’. How might I work with a team and people to be ‘humbly arrogant’? Image Credit – Image Credit.

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Coming for the August 3 First Friday Book Synopsis – Platform, & Goldratt’s The Goal

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here are two important business success issues: #1 — how do I successfully get people to listen to my message? Solve these 2 issues, and your path to business success becomes a little clearer. and #2 — how do I find, and get rid of, whatever is slowing us down in our company? At the [.].

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Systemically Non-Systemic: COVID-19 through the Deming Lens

Deming Institute

Guest blog post by Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at Drake University. In it he writes that, “…our prosocial disposition and our noblest altruistic tendencies have deep roots in the physics of self-organization and are probably responsible for our species’ unparalleled success…” (p. Hernandez, S.,

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