business
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In my career thus far, I have gotten the experience working in a number of different organizations and a number of different organizational constructs. I have learned lessons from each. Recently, I have been reflecting on how to organize those lessons and how to apply them to enable better outcomes. As I have thought about…
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It seems that people have been inventing stories to make sense of events for as long as people have been. Nassem Taleb, in Fooled by Randomness, commented about people’s tendency to create narratives to explain events. In his view, people tended to create deterministic narratives to explain random events or outcomes that resulted from uncertainty. Taleb believes that “You…
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Organizations, like spacecraft, rockets, and airplanes, rely on guidance, navigation, and control systems. Recently, I have been thinking about the similarities between guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) systems, the management and leadership systems in organizations, and how learnings from one type of system might be useful to the other type of system. At their core, GN&C…
Musings of an Analyst 