Learning to Climb: Metacognition Is Freedom
Human beings are good at placing roadblocks to success and building plans that can’t be followed. We tend to fall back on our “common sense” or “snap judgement” which often makes us feel like our cavalier decisions were actually thought out.
A Turning Point for Humanity
I n November 2018, in Versailles, France, representatives from 57 countries are expected to make history. They will vote to dramatically transform the international system that underpins global science and trade.
Leader Standard Waste, Part Two
Many years ago, the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC) introduced a visual measurement device to my factory, referred to as a “production activity log” (PAL), also known to some as an hour-by-hou
Generosity: Serve It Forward
The 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia, won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 35th Academy Awards.
Olympus Honored by Laser Focus World 2018 Innovators Awards Program
(Olympus: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus announces its LEXT OLS5000 3D laser confocal scanning microscope was recognized by the judges of the annual Laser Focus World Innovators Awards program.
Device That Recycles Vaporized Water From Power Plants Wins MIT $100K
The grand prize winner at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was an MIT spinout that’s developing a system that captures and recycles vaporized water from thermoelectric power plants.
Invisible Probability Models
Some properties of a probability model are hard to describe in practical terms. The explanation for this rests upon the fact that most probability models will have both visible and invisible portions.
Leader Standard Waste, Part One
Three years ago I wrote an article titled “The Emperor’s New Huddle Boards,” in which I expressed concern about the trappings of improvement without actual improvement.
Here’s Why Good Leaders Sometimes Want Disobedience
As a leader, which would you rather have from your people: dumb obedience or smart disobedience?