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Tag Archives: theory of knowledge
Pragmatism and Management Knowledge
Is the Theory of Constraints (TOC) a Theory? [the broken link was removed]: I suppose it’s a question of precision then. There are many things that you could argue are useful, if you argue backward from the end result. Yet … Continue reading
Errors in Thinking
The Doctor’s In, But Is He Listening?, text and podcast from NPR: Jerome Groopman (photo) is a doctor who discovered that he needed a doctor. When his hand was hurt, he went to six prominent surgeons and got four different … Continue reading
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Illusions – Optical and Other
If the output for working for the year is a square. And the job is to produce dark squares who do you pay more A or B? Of course it is a trick question, the squares are the same color. … Continue reading
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Tagged continual improvement, curiouscat, Deming, Popular, Psychology, theory of knowledge
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The Illusion of Understanding
The “Illusion of Explanatory Depth”: How Much Do We Know About What We Know? (broken link š was removed) is an interesting post that touches on psychology and theory of knowledge. Often (more often than Iād like to admit), my … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, Psychology, theory of knowledge
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Deming Institute Conference: Tom Nolan
I attended the annual W. Edwards Deming Institute conference this weekend: it was quite good. Tom Nolan [the broken link was removed] lead off the conference with: Developing and Applying Theory to Get Results. He discussed the theory of knowledge: … Continue reading
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Tagged continual improvement, Deming, PDSA, theory of knowledge
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Management is Prediction
re: post on prediction [link broken, so removed] on the Deming Electronic Network: Petter Ogland wrote: …that intelligence more or less boils down to updating a predictive model of the world. As far as I can see, this is the … Continue reading
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