This paper provides insight into what makes learning from failure so difficult to put into practice – that is, we address the question of why organizations fail to learn from failure. We identify pernicious barriers embedded in both technical and social systems that make collective learning processes unusual in organizations, and present recommendations for what managers can do to overcome these barriers.
A weblog by one of AOL’s senior technical directors. Some very interesting thoughts on management in a technology context.
apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed
Danah Boyd’s blog full of random thoughts about online communities and other (typically technology oriented) musings. I need to spend more time here. Or go do my marketing homework. Bah.
A new stepping stone in my quest to become a huge dork: I have business cards. For my MBA program. Ha!
Yeah, so I changed a few details, but you get the idea.
PS – Weather update: still no rain and only two cloudy days. A native San Diegoan exclaimed, “it feels like fall!” That was days ago, and today I did note that it was slightly colder. I might wear pants instead of shorts to school tomorrow. Maybe.
A Canadian man was falsely accused of being a terrorist. My government secretly shipped him to another country where he was beaten and held for 10 months in a coffin sized cell. There is no excuse for this. Torture produced a false confession from him. The Bush administration advocates this system. Vote them out.
I am at the beginning of a 16 month full time MBA program here at USD. It’s the first year USD has a full time cohort (they’ve been doing part time and international for a while), and they’re doing it presumably in order to get on the rankings.
Another way to get attention would be this: get the Dean arrested. That’s right; our Dean was apparently caught in Cleveland of all places, for “complicity to possess drugs.” Now, buying drugs registers a big zero on my moral outrage scale, but come on. Cleveland? Do you seriously want anything in your body that comes from Cleveland?
UPDATE! For some reason “Breakfast with the Dean” has been renamed to just a breakfast for alumni on the MBA website. They move fast.
So at the end of August, I quite my job and moved out of my old (100+ years) Victorian house in Columbus, Ohio. My girlfriend and I packed up our stuff, put it on a semi trailer and sent it off. We then threw our combined total of four cats in the car and headed west to a two bedroom apartment in San Diego.
We arrived on August 21st. I am enrolled at the University of San Diego’s full time MBA program. It’s the first time they’ve done a full time class, and the first time I’ve lived in California or attended graduate school. I write this on September 15th mainly to note that, while it looks like the sun might break through, this is the first day since we arrived that it hasn’t been sunny for most (or all) of the day. We have yet to see rain.
Life is great.
Ok, so I took the Myers-Briggs test as part of my fancy MBA program. I’ve taken another version of this recently, but this time I came out as:
INTP
Introverted Thinking with Intuition
Now, we did some excercises with a Myer’s-Briggs representative, and she implied that the score in class was probably a little more representative than the online test. So perhaps I’m ISFP (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving). The test I took a couple of months ago came out ISJF, although it was slightly different.
Apparently you move more towards the middle of these things as you age, and given my old man tendancies perhaps that’s why I scored close to the middle on most. Except Introversion. You will all be shocked to know that I do, in fact, “tend to relate easily to [my] inner world of ideas and impressions” as opposed to “relat[ing] easily to the outer world of people and things.”