I have been thinking about ingredients of excellent performance and have arrived at combination of ability*motivation*ability to learn*ability to maintain and increase motivation*selection of the right direction*ability to adjust direction or approaches as needed. It is starting to sound a lot like personal version of the Excellence Matrix: ability will tools approach target feedback constraints [...]
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As I was watching Torchwood, I had a thought that had nothing at all to do with the realm of Sci Fi. Sci Fi after all is just a reflection of our psyche. We view our threats as big ugly monsters, who come to attack us. Yet, it’s the small things that often come from [...]
E-M8 looks at 8 aspects of managing a business, but the way each of those aspects appears in businesses is a function of the phases in business life-cycle. There are 5 major phases that have been identified, by Greiner and many others, including independently, myself (I arrived at the phases by looking at rules of [...]
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Summerhill is a book about the school that has used freedom and discretion, along with participative democracy to become one of the most unique schools in the middle of 20th century. The book “Summerhill” details the views and the experiences of the person that ran it. This book is a great read because it forces us [...]
Punished by Rewards is by far the best book on motivation that I have ever read. Never mind that it could be one third the length and still make the same point. It is still an extremely valuable book because it not only challenges current state of events, but does a great job of it. [...]
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