by Dwayne Phillips Take caution with negative statements as they often contradict themselves. “There is no crying in baseball,” is a famous line from the movie A League of Their Own. (My wife says that is a movie about sisters. I say it is a movie about baseball.) That is a self-contradictory statement. One person […]
Entries Tagged as 'Appearances'
There Is No Crying in Baseball and Other Self-Contradictions
April 22nd, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Analysis · Appearances · Clarity · Communication · Integrity · Learning · Meaning · Writing
Did Anyone Read This?
November 13th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips A partial list of boo boos I have seen in published documents over the years. If anyone had read these things, surely they would have found these things. Right? I guess an editor or someone like that should have read this, but it appears that no one did. Here is a partial […]
Tags: Accountability · Appearances · Honesty · Reading · Reality · Writing
Emergency Flashers
March 23rd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Despite what I have noticed the past couple of years, declaring an emergency does not allow us to do whatever we want. I’ve noticed something about folks and those emergency flashers on automobiles. If you turn on your emergency flashers, you can do anything you want. Great things these emergency flashers, huh? […]
Tags: Accountability · Appearances · Emergency · Planning
Omission
January 2nd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips No one lied, they just omitted some information. There are ways to find the omissions and those things are some of the more important pieces of information we need. No one lied, they just omitted a few bits and pieces of information. And, oh, if we had those bits and pieces of […]
Tags: Appearances · Communication · Ethics · Fear · Honesty · Information · Questions · Talk
The View from Across the Way
December 5th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes it is better to see the Eiffel Tower from across town instead on being on the Eiffel Tower and seeing the slums. I’ve seen many photographs of the great pyramids in Egypt. I have only seen a few photographs of the city next to the great pyramids. Yikes. I prefer the […]
Tags: Appearances · Reframe · Review · Systems · Visibility
The Real Work
November 24th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Busy at work? But are we doing the real work? Consider for a moment the “fast food industry” in America. I think we Americans invented this endeavor. What are the key words? I believe #1 is “industry” and #2 is “fast.” The concept of “food” is … well, not so important. This […]
Tags: Appearances · Authentic · Employment · Practice · Work
Assuming It was Correct
November 14th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Take care when assuming that something was done correctly at some time in the past. “I’ll copy this, modify it, and move on,” said a brave and trusting person. Perhaps “this” was done correctly in the past. Copying and modifying is a good, time-saving tactic. What, however, if this was done incorrectly […]
Tags: Appearances · Change · General Systems Thinking · Systems · Work
The WristCoach: Why not for the Rest of Us?
November 7th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Athletes are wearing encyclopedia’s on their wrists (some call them wristcoach). The device helps the memory at critical moments. Why can’t the rest of us wear them? We have all seen these on TV for the past several years. They are great big wrist bands that have all the plays or something […]
Tags: Appearances · Expertise · Fatigue · Humility · Remember · Tools
We Were the Last Generation to…
September 22nd, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Each generation laments how no one recognizes how special they are. Well, sort of. Times change, ya’ know? I just saw another one of these things online. It was a black and white photo of kids on their bicycles in the street. We were the last generation to ride bikes in the […]
Tags: Appearances · Calendar · General Systems Thinking · Review · Time
Putting a Face to a Name
August 25th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps this is the complaint of an old man, but all the Zoomer Teams meetings just aren’t getting it done. The title of this post is an old expression from an old time. We used to talk with people on the telephone. That worked to a point, but we couldn’t “picture” the […]
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