Warning. This will be a discussion unlike anything else you have ever had. This doesn’t mean it's a good thing. That’s for you to decide.
I want you to ask yourself one simple question:
“Who am I?”
Now remove the word “Who” and flip the last two words. What do you place after two simple words:
I am _________________.
I will come back to this at the end.
I went for a run last week and had an epiphany. Along a busy road, at the middle mark of my run, a large…
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The purpose of the Complex Adaptive Syllabus (CAS) is to provide a deeper understanding of the structure of my teaching methodology and how this course will be conducted.
For those of you thinking of immediately dropping this course, I suggest you visit the Swarm Learning (SL) Facebook Group and interact with former students. There are no tests in this course and you have the freedom to complete assignments as they post. If you do the work (and especially if you write a good blog), then you will pass this class (likely with an “A”).
INF 322 Introduction to Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Principles is built upon the methodology of LSSv2.0.
The purpose of the Complex Adaptive Syllabus (CAS) is to provide a deeper understanding of the structure of my teaching methodology and how this course will be conducted.
For those of you thinking of immediately dropping this course, I suggest you visit the Swarm Learning (SL) Facebook Group and interact with former students. This course provides you the freedom to complete assignments as they post.
Use AutomationAnywhere Bot to open all.
Use while presenting the SL App (discuss app):
Remind them to complete the survey for this presentation.
Go to SL App Survey (Feedback)
have Teaching map already open
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In The Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, T. M. Kubiak and Donald W. Benbow describe Hoshin Kanri as:
“One translation of the word hoshin refers to a shining arrow such as found on a compass. The word kanri may be translated as management. …
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Taking a cue from Ryan George via Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: so you have a coronavirus conspiracy theory for me?
Yes, sir, I do.
It appears the coronavirus reduces the human intellect.
This is not actually a conspiracy theory. But if we revise the statement to read:
People who believe in coronavirus conspiracy theories have less human intellect.
Then it becomes more of an accurate statement.
When practicing marksmanship, do you first shoot at something only then to draw a target around the bullet holes (known as the Texas sharpshooter fallacy)? Hopefully the answer is no. Yet, this is something that would come naturally to us. Gary Klein informs us in A Data/Frame Model of Sensemaking, in Expertise Out of Context, that our brains automatically fit data into a frame and fit the frame around that data. We have the tendency to interpret patterns where none exist.
I first published this discussion on February 22, 2020, in Getting “Left of Bang” in Foster Care. Due to its length, I wanted to publish a quick read to make sure some of the important points were not missed. More specifically, one of the foster care contracts in Kansas. Read the original article for more information (and links to the contract plus amendments).
The foster care system in Kansas is a disorganized mess ran by incompetent people. Their incompetence violates what is known as Campbell’s Law, developed by social scientist Donald T. Campbell, in that:
The more a metric is…
Dr. Schwandt (Ed.D.) is an American author, L6S master black belt, and red teamer.