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by calinet6 12y ago
Really great article. This is what Deming (old school father of the concept of quality control) was getting at with his view of organizations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming This topic is traditionally
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> Improving communication flow between departments, building better processes, discovering metrics, these are things that you can do to help make your company better without having to get the leadership involved. This requires someone wi
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The article describes a different phenomenon (perytons) that are unrelated to FRBs. The HN post is named incorrectly.
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Good ol' Ojai! Yep, they had their roots there. It was indeed across from OYES and the farmer's market, on Matilija St. I believe they moved to a larger space in the same square, before finally moving to TO when they started doing
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I don't believe that's a cultural mesh that would work.
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Congratulations Lynda.com! Story time. When I was in high school, I worked in a little computer lab in my small hometown of Ojai, California, that taught classes in Photoshop, Fireworks, web design and development, Flash, and more. That lit
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Reduce the individual focus and break the cycle. The work of the team as a system is what matters, not each individual contribution. Individuals may even be sub-optimized at a personal level in order to make a working system, and we must re
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by calinet6 12y ago
Absolutely fascinating (*pending seeing the chart of time normalized by employee tenure, which would be more interesting all things considered). In any case, this type of thinking shows one facet of the application of statistics to people.
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Then why the heck are we talking about introversion and extroversion with a straight face? Seriously, they're antiquated descriptors. I was only pointing out how ridiculous it is to assume someone's lack of knowledge of terms. The
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Often the simplest, cheapest, emptiest things make pretty good systems. They reduce waste, and have certain advantages. Your joke is funny, but I promise you that's not the reason for open floor plans. The key is that even an open plan
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Those are systemic solutions. The question is if the tradeoff in the reduction/change of collaboration is worth the increased productivity from the better layout. That's not an obvious question to answer, in fact—that's what
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Your definition is just as tenuous. I define introversion by the MBTI definition: "I like getting my energy from dealing with the ideas, pictures, memories, and reactions that are inside my head, in my inner world. I often prefer doing
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It's difficult for people to recognize that open offices exist for a reason, but they absolutely do. They are a systemic solution to communication, collaboration, and motivation problems. All three need different systemic solutions in
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I did several things, I think. And it does fluctuate. - College in an extremely social club environment (marching band) - Moved across the country to a new place, forced me to meet new people, change social skill set - Moved from small comp
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Wouldn't it be great if that effort was actually focused systematically? Exponential improvement. Deming knew how to do it, and even outlined that the entire economy would rise because of improved management practices. I very much beli
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What you describe is a systemic lack of leadership. It stems from a lack of understanding of systems and the way people fit into them and work together toward a genuine goal. This lack of understanding comes from beliefs in individual aptit
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Yep! Gotta watch those darn words I learned to juggle for comedic effect. Definitely haven't taken the MBTI assessment multiple times in my life or anything. Or read Jung's books on personality that underpinned them. Nope, just he
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So many. To name a few: Marge Piercy (see below) Robert Frost (if you read him carefully) Philip Larkin William Stafford --- To be of use – by Marge Piercy http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/09...
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Not everything is an introvert/extrovert thing. Not even people. Signed, a former mostly-introvert, now mostly-extrovert, who remains an able and efficient member of my team, thank-you-very-much. Now, down to business, my office actual
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Extrovert here, former introvert (yeah, it's not fixed). I appreciate the defense against what is at the very least a statement of extreme arrogance by the GP. I love a quiet workspace, and I also enjoy an open office plan. There'
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One of the least understood facets of statistics. In random or natural distributions, we do not expect any kind of evenness or predictable spacing. Clustering of seemingly random events happens and happens often. Only when averaged over a
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So many mirrors knocked off. Even if you turned your mirror in, you had a chance of a total sideswipe. Not fun.
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Work is an effort to do something meaningful with time. If our perspective on it is skewed, then that can change—and perhaps it should—but work itself is not evil, nor should we redefine the word to be so construed. As W. Edwards Deming sai
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But there are parts of that work, and parts of other work, that seem pointless on the surface, but in fact have a very specific and necessary part of the system ensuring the end goal. Someone might just be a paper pusher, literally organizi
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Cal >> Stanfurd.
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And Berkeley will just be waiting in the wings for the battle to bring you both down. Muahaha.
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Us Californians just really, really like Yosemite.
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Ratings can't really be trusted there. I don't know, I've been running Yosemite just fine since beta. Some issues here and there that have been slowly improving. It's still UNIX, it still has a great UI. I don't thi
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Correct, 95% of the average knowledge worker will be fine with 8GB, but only 5% of the skilled knowledge workers who run specialized software, development stacks, VMs, etc. In a software company I wouldn't stick anyone with an 8GB mac.
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It got a lot better in Mavericks with compression and better subsystems, but I'm sorry, I still push the limits with 16GB. 8 isn't enough for OSX at this point.

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