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Always Be Ready to Teach

August 19th, 2024 · No Comments

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 […]

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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 […]

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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). […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Tags: Choose · Management · Reality · Remote Work