What have you and I been put on this Earth to do?
Steven Pressfield – Author and Historian
Clayton Christiansen, father of contemporary disruption, developed a Harvard Business School (HBS) course addressing the above question. The purpose of the course was to engage very bright people to reflect on their lives and disrupt it intentionally. He saw many successful people were horribly unhappy with divorces and substance abuse. Continue reading
Here’s a question for you: Do you ask your suppliers the right questions concerning reliability?
Probably not.
If you are getting the right information from your suppliers, then you would enjoy few supplier related field issues, or as little downtime or low warranty costs.
Asking the right set of questions will help you gain the understanding you need to improve your reliability performance. Continue reading
There are millions of software projects in the world, and thousands of software technologies available. This means that research into topics that affect software project outcomes is of necessity a complicated issue. By concentrating on the extreme ends of possible results, it is easier to see the root causes of success and failure. Continue reading
Shortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting to show his arrest appeared online. These images looked like news photos, but they were fake. They were created by a generative artificial intelligence system.
Generative AI, in the form of image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and text generators like Bard, ChatGPT, Chinchilla and LLaMA, has exploded in the public sphere. By combining clever machine-learning algorithms with billions of pieces of human-generated content, these systems can do anything from create an eerily realistic image from a caption, synthesize a speech in President Joe Biden’s voice, replace one person’s likeness with another in a video, or write a coherent 800-word op-ed from a title prompt. Continue reading
For several years, I have been a career coach and mentor because after twenty years working in occupational health & safety, I had some questions:
1) Why does every resume look the same? I am doing more.
2) Why are executives reluctant to learn about health & safety, over the years I have been shocked that potential executives, possible candidates to use my coaching and mentorship skills, many display such stiff, robotic language in their branding (“Results-oriented professional with a bottom-line orientation,” for instance.) This language hurts them! It sucks all their personality out of their resume. Continue reading