My good friend Tonya asked for some advice on preparing for her dissertation proposal defense. These were my thoughts on the dissertation defense (I misheard her). For the proposal defense, the focus is more on the procedural and methodological questions 🙂 They should ask you, and you should be prepared to give answers to these […]
Tag: Recreation
Pre-market news: May 2, 2011
The combination of the death of OBL and the overseas selling of silver will make the mornng session a roller coaster ride. Spot silver is already well off its overnigfht bottom, but its a certainty that there will be another selling rush at the open. Cool hands will be buying, as the economics of silver […]
Persistence vs Reframing
Image via Wikipedia I was thinking about the tension that I see between persistence and reframing. A lot of our formal management and leadership education suggests that we should continue to work our way through and around obstacles along the way in order to get to our objectives. Traditional problem-solving tells us that the path […]
Youth soccer coaching: picking a good formation for U11 teams
There are many different opinions about what the best formation is for teams that play in a youth under 11 league. Typically these leagues will feature seven field players and the goalie, and the question is what formation will allow us to achieve our goals? A coach would be well served to sort out his […]
Youth soccer coaching: preparing your halftime speech
Image via Wikipedia It should be the goal of every soccer coach to develop players who take personal responsibility for their play and the play of their team throughout the game. In soccer, however, sometimes it is too easy for the adult coach to become the dominant personality on the side of the field and […]
Systems dynamics meets the Afghan war via Powerpoint
It is becoming a common practice to laugh at that slide, but try on this thought experiment: what if someone made a slide of a zoom in on the surface of a semi-conductor chip? Wouldn’t that seem as incomprehensible and “foolish”? and yet by the slow process of developing knowledge we have become capable of extraordinary […]