To Invent Your Organization’s Future, Experiment, Question, Sometimes Fail
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“If you want to build innovative, adaptive capacity, there is no more powerful leverage than experimentation”
—Polly LaBarre.
What to Do When Reality Smacks You in the Face
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What happens to nine-ton elephants and two-ton cages?
The CEO rejected my proposal by explaining, “Susan, your problem is you keep creating nine-ton elephants for two-ton cages.”
Prioritize a QMS Process Automation or Risk Failure
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Logically, if a process is ineffective, manual, or redundant, automate it.
Inside Quality Digest Live for May 19, 2017
The episode of QDL from this past Fri., May 19, 2017, offered a wonderful example of Dirk geeking out about NIST and innovation in metrology, not to mention a great interview and a delicious take on the power of chefs as leaders.
3D Printing Method Creates Shape-Shifting Objects
(Georgia Tech News Center: Atlanta) -- A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and two other institutions has developed a new 3D printing method to create objects that can permanently transform into a range of different shapes in response to heat.
Brutal Prioritization
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If your house is on fire…
During times of excessive work and crisis, something has to give. Sometimes brutal prioritization is the only way to make it through challenging times with your sanity intact.