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October 11th, 2008
The Synergy of the Two Mind-Sets
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Ralph Windle has started a new blog. I’d like to welcome him and to feature his work, because I think he’s focused on an important area: creating dialog, innovation, and progress at the intersection of the realms of science and the arts. Both groups (and more; the world doesn’t lend itself to being divided into only two such groups, as classic as that grouping is) have much to offer the vital and urgent challenges we face, and the synergy of the two mindsets and the two sets of approaches could be vital for a number of reasons.
In times such as this, we have to work together to figure out our values and our priorities and to work together on the tough problems we face. I learned that over many years of work: you need to know your objectives, your goals, in order to make good decisions, and you need to involve all the people in the system if you want both a robust decision and a decision people will support. Robert Dugger made that same claim yesterday in a panel discussion called the “Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Forum on Consequences of Federal Intervention in U.S. Markets”
How does Ralph Windle figure into this? He and his Creative Value Network are focused on creating dialog among those in the sciences and the arts to foster innovation and creativity. Check it out, and join in the dialog; perhaps together you and the others can be part of making the world a bit (or maybe even a lot) better.
Bill Harris : ‘ Facilitated Systems’ is a vehicle for applying systemic approches to the solution of complex business and creative problems.
October 10th, 2008
Bridging the Shared Learning Gap
Each of the two cultures seems locked into its own disciplines and methods. What steps could be taken to break down this ‘lock-in’?
Lock-in is a longstanding phenomenon. When Marco Polo returned from China and told of the use of paper money, that paradigm or mental concept was simply too foreign for his own people: only metal money could be real and have value. A mindset that endured well into the next century. Consider your PC keyboard. Its layout was designed in 1873 to slow typing down, because early mechanisms jammed easily. More than 100 years later we use the same keyboard layout. ( Continue reading… )