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Hiding Information and Ignorance

June 15th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips “I don’t know” and “I don’t want to say” are close cousins. They also carry much information if we are willing to listen. “I don’t know.” “I can’t say.” “I don’t want to say anything now as I may be divulging too much or incorrect information.” Would you please tell me something? […]

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Tags: Information · Questions · Uncategorized · Visibility · Work

I Just ____-ed My Brain

May 9th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We (or at least I) need a word for those little things that give us (me) headaches. The waiter at the restaurant walked by. He had a band-aid on his thumb. “Yeah,” he acknowledged. “I just cut or burned for scraped or something my thumb and put a band-aid on it.” The […]

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Tags: Injury · Meetings · Visibility

Please Draw Me a Picture of This

April 16th, 2018 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips If we can’t provide a simple representation of a system, perhaps we have a mess and not a system. A: Can you draw me a picture of this? Something that shows how all the parts fit together? B: Uh, well, no. No one has ever asked for such. A: Well, I’m new […]

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Tags: Communication · Conversation · Systems · Technology · Visibility