by Dwayne Phillips Hiring new people? Want to them to know everything that people who already work here know? There is no easy answer, but there are some answers. When look at the Help Wanted ads, I frequently encounter employers who want to hire people who already work for them. The ads are easy to […]
Entries Tagged as 'Reality'
Always Be Ready to Teach
August 19th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Adults · Learning · Reality · Teaching · Time · Work
That Won’t Work or It Shouldn’t Work
May 27th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are techniques, tools, methodologies, etc. that won’t work—until they do. They shouldn’t work—until they do. What is happening here? Many years ago, we were sitting in a conference room watching a presentation video on a television. The television has a cathode ray tube with a curved glass cover (I wrote that […]
Tags: Alternatives · Practice · Process · Reality · Success · Tools · Work
Believe Reality
May 23rd, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips No matter what is in a document, believe what you observe in the here and now. Believe reality. While writing this, we are in the middle of having the carpet replaced at work. The big room where I work is filled with cubicles (one of the great torture chambers invented by man). […]
Tags: Adapting · Observation · Planning · Reality · Work
Philosophy and Reality
March 14th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Philosophy and utopia are great until reality punches everything in the nose—philosophically speaking of course. Philosophical discussions are great. They may stretch the mind to see other points of view or possibilities. They may lead to better ways. Philosophy, however, is philosophy and not reality. We need to keep that in mind. […]
Tags: Culture · Experiment · Fable · Greed · History · Ideas · Reality · Technical Debt
Connecting Games, Simulations, and Real Life
February 15th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Games are simulations of real life. Some games simulate real life better than others. The key is to connect the simulations to real life in a meaningful manner. Games are simulations. The Monopoly game is supposed to simulate business, commerce, and acquiring wealth or something like that. Tick-Tack-Toe simulates spatial logic and […]
Tags: Experiment · Management · Reaction · Reality
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
And What Has Changed?
May 4th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The passing of time is usually insufficient for a person to move from task to another. Sorry. Hopes and wishes are not plans. I have seen this time and again. A person is hired for one job with the qualifications needed for that job. A few years later, that person is moved […]
Tags: Change · Hope · Learning · Reality · Teaching · Wishes
People Say That Because…
November 25th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We often say things simply because we have heard others say those things. We are an odd lot. People say that because… they heard other people say that. And the other people said it with great confidence and bravado. Hence, it must be true, right? “Half of marriages end in divorce.” That […]
Tags: Appearances · Communication · Error · Expectations · Judgment · Reality
Chimney, Orange, and Odd Connections
July 19th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The words “chimney” and “orange” rhyme, well, sort of, maybe not, but they are certainly connected. In English, there is no word that rhymes with “orange.” At least that is what I have read. I’m not sure about that. I have heard the same about the word “chimney,” but once again I […]
Tags: General Systems Thinking · Observation · Reality · Systems · Thinking · Word
“Good” by Situation, not by Choice
January 11th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We are often the way we are because of our situation, not by a choice. Sometimes our situation forces us into “good.” Slim and trim are good. At least being slim is seen as good by most of western society at this time in the 21st century. Obesity is not good. Again, […]
Tags: Choose · Management · Reality · Remote Work