Michele Pasin / Quotes

Leadership in a changing environment

Such changes as deregulation of the airline industry, skyrocketing costs of health care, and the greater quality and quantity of imported cars impact the environment in significant ways. If industries do not monitor the environment, including their own work teams, and exercise the creative leadership to keep headed in the right direction, no amount of management expertise can keep them from failing.

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#leadership #business #environment #changes

Protecting the team from business noise

There is often a lot of noise from within the business, and it's down to the product owner and the ScrumMaster to protect the team from that noise. Changes in…

A Scrum Master Is Not A Project Manager By Another Name #product-owners #owners #business #team #changes #noise

Bateson: what thinks is a total circuit

“We used to argue whether a machine could think. The answer is, ‘No’. What thinks is a total circuit, including perhaps a computer, a man, and an environment…

Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #mind #externalism #environment #thinking

Brain plasticity and screen culture

‘Although most neuroscientists are familiar with the concept of what we call plasticity,’ she told me, ‘it might be that most people haven’t really grasped…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #brain #screen-time #technology #environment

Dewey and going green

John Dewey supported parents at a time when the United States was transitioning from an agricultural to an industrial age. Had someone mentioned “going green”…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #education #environment #children #future

How programs act on the external environment

In conclusion, while in the previous section we focused on the immediate function of programs as technical artefacts –producing some effects inside a…

Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #environment #interface #software-systems #software-products

IQ is a dress size, not a birth date

Like Kirstie’s dress size, IQ is malleable. IQ has been shown to vary over one’s life span, and it is surprisingly vulnerable to environmental influences. It…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #intelligence #environment #family #measures