... a beginner at something

Our most powerful facility: Imagination, as...

Our most powerful facility: Imagination, as artists do.

Second most powerful: Manifestation, as engineers do.

 

Both depend, to a degree, on: Education, as parents and teachers and colleagues do.

How to make love to planet Earth

 

 

- not good enough to stop pillaging and polluting. Promise to steal less will not do.

- get a date and more. Enjoy and respect nature, often. She will let you

- make love with Earth by understanding the nature of ecosystems, and helping them grow. Every day

- the sun does it. We climax by coming home and by

 

- harvest. Take only what Earth freely gives without bleeding.

- help nurture the next generation in thrivable spirit. Enjoy the view again.

 

-- CoCreatr

 

 

Inspired by Venessa and Spirit Lovers. Image via graphicshunt.

Why Work Products Matter More Than Procedures

Aiming to transparently learn from competence and passion.

 

Too often, well-meaning people think ...process improvement is about creating, training, and implementing detailed processes or procedures. If they just build the perfect procedure, using all the right words and having a perfect format, engineers and project managers will recognize the intrinsic value of the procedure, pick it up and use it, right? Most of us recognize this outcome is unlikely. But why?

Not Getting Started is the Fastest Fail Ever

Inspired by people who understand the notion that failing faster is part of being successful.

Seth Godin The privilege of being wrong
Caroline Di Diego Is there such a thing as “Successful FAIL”?
Mark W Schaefer {grow}.

Enjoy.

Hospital stay with a fun part

A multi-night stay last week at Showa University Hospital (site is Japanese)  showed to me the awesome power, performance and fun of working with an organization positively aligned with

• requirements of the art and technology (accident surgery), almost no pain after day 2,
• well staffed and trained (5 patients per nurse by day, 15 by night), 
• focused and able to see immediate needs, (anyone nearby gives a hand), and
• fully aiming to accommodate the patient's interests in the shared final outcome.

I mean: out of the many points of asking informed consent and among hundreds of interactions within nine days only one of my requests was ignored, one was delayed and fixed without my need to follow up, and I heard one white lie, by the anaesthesiologist. Probably I was not clear enough that I had read up overnight on the procedure he preferred and told him I agreed he use it, yet he tried to make me believe he'd use the other less invasive way. Thanks to his prior explanation of side effects for informed consent it was so easy to tell.

Oh, why did I say multi-night stay above? Because the service (not the food) compared to star hotels. The care and personal interactions exceeded it. I saw a lot of concern, smiles, laughter even, and not a single grumpy or harried face. 

They have two kinds of meetings, 1. walking, as in the doctor's morning rounds. 2. standing in a loose circle, when the nurses hand over to the next shift. Patient records fully computerized, lots of checklists and dedicated execution, organized around patient's needs and wishes, with a smile. Their main feedback system is an Opinion/Risk/Proposal card used by staff, patients and visitors alike, and summarized in the internal monhtly newsletter.

 

If you have a choice, this is the kind of hospital I'd recommend.

 

Ah, yes, why was I there? Ski accident, compression fracture of femoral head, set and fixed with three screws now. Recuperating at home and on crutches until end of April.

For upcoming days, I plan on sharing part of my daily log.

Season's Greetings, Venessa and Crowd

Happened again upon Venessa Miemis' talk at Sibos, and gave it a fresh edit on the machine transcription Youtube provided. 'Tis the season...

What if emotion is emergent by design?

Happened to skype with Venessa, a great listener who shares attention in a way that helps me to flashes of insight every now and then. Today was such a now. And we chatted text-only, from Mexico to Japan. 

 

Here is what her expert listening evoked. I did not ask permission to publish her part, so here is only mine, edited for "mistypos" and links added.

 

Giving thanks to virtual friends, and why we cannot explain twitter

If you never used twitter, don't worry and skip this. Or open the page, skip all the names and scroll all the way down for a quick briefing.

 

Dear loose connections,

thank you for the frequent or occasional live energetic conversations. I so appreciate your effortless beingness, you mirroring, and co-creation with you. Your virtual friendship and real trust mean a lot to me. So  I hope you enjoy your chosen twitterfriends as well. 

You know who you are. Thanks to http://mytwitterfans.com everyone may know. Want to see the whole long list?

Thank you - if you wish for more frequent posting on this blog.

As a naive English speaker (not native), I enjoy the convenience of adding my brief take to focused quotes made easy by Amplify. See me more frequently, yet less deeply on http://cocreatr.amplify.com/

I post here if I feel it is important enough to merit many of my words or few of my images.