Comments on: The Prepared Mind Knows How to Challenge http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/index.php/the-prepared-mind-know-how-to-challenge We Help Managers Make a Difference Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Welter http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/index.php/the-prepared-mind-know-how-to-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-398 Bill Welter Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:13:22 +0000 http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/?p=128#comment-398 Fred, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I was traveling without a computer (GASP!). It felt good. I share your concern about teaching young people how to really think -- in the hope of helping them build "self esteem" I've seen too much emphasis on trying to make everyone's opinion valuable. Sorry, but it's only valuable if it's build on a solid foundation. Bill Fred, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I was traveling without a computer (GASP!). It felt good.

I share your concern about teaching young people how to really think — in the hope of helping them build “self esteem” I’ve seen too much emphasis on trying to make everyone’s opinion valuable. Sorry, but it’s only valuable if it’s build on a solid foundation.
Bill

]]> By: Fred H Schlegel http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/index.php/the-prepared-mind-know-how-to-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-397 Fred H Schlegel Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:44:34 +0000 http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/?p=128#comment-397 Actually, I'm quite hopeful. Part of this may be the experience I've had watching my kids move through various levels of ability when it comes to evaluative thought. At times I feel like we are in an arms race, with folks who want to influence us always looking for new, trickier tools and we humans having to take the time to perceive the trick and build defenses against it. The transmutation of fact based news into primarily opinion based spewing has been terribly confusing, but overtime the ability to constantly spin declines as folks catch on. I like the way your steps force you to think about where you are at in the overall thought process and where incoming information belongs in the scheme of things. I'm now wondering how clearly this type of path has been laid out for kids - seems that it would be appropriate in some in early education. <abbr><em>Fred H Schlegel’s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/frogblog/yTub/~3/4Dzxqf9AiOE/" rel="nofollow">Shaking Up the MBA | Dirty Fingernails Entrepreneurship</a></abbr></em> Actually, I’m quite hopeful. Part of this may be the experience I’ve had watching my kids move through various levels of ability when it comes to evaluative thought. At times I feel like we are in an arms race, with folks who want to influence us always looking for new, trickier tools and we humans having to take the time to perceive the trick and build defenses against it. The transmutation of fact based news into primarily opinion based spewing has been terribly confusing, but overtime the ability to constantly spin declines as folks catch on. I like the way your steps force you to think about where you are at in the overall thought process and where incoming information belongs in the scheme of things. I’m now wondering how clearly this type of path has been laid out for kids – seems that it would be appropriate in some in early education.

Fred H Schlegel’s last blog post..Shaking Up the MBA | Dirty Fingernails Entrepreneurship

]]> By: Bill Welter http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/index.php/the-prepared-mind-know-how-to-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-396 Bill Welter Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:06:29 +0000 http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/?p=128#comment-396 Brad, Time horizons will varying from industry to industry. Pharma and semiconductors, for example, are capital intensive and make billion dollar bets when they build plants (and try to match real need). They certainly need to be looking 5 to 7 years out. Businesses with fewer physical assets to consider have a significantly closer horizon. We spent much of the later part of the 20th century in search of "sustainable competitive advantage;" now we have to make sure we are agile enough to maintain an adaptive strategy posture. My current position is that sustainability comes from adaptability and hosizons are variable. Bill Brad, Time horizons will varying from industry to industry. Pharma and semiconductors, for example, are capital intensive and make billion dollar bets when they build plants (and try to match real need). They certainly need to be looking 5 to 7 years out. Businesses with fewer physical assets to consider have a significantly closer horizon.
We spent much of the later part of the 20th century in search of “sustainable competitive advantage;” now we have to make sure we are agile enough to maintain an adaptive strategy posture. My current position is that sustainability comes from adaptability and hosizons are variable.
Bill

]]> By: Brad Shorr http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/index.php/the-prepared-mind-know-how-to-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-395 Brad Shorr Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:27:04 +0000 http://www.adaptstrat.com/blog/?p=128#comment-395 Bill, It seems to me that we are being buried under an avalanche of information, and I think the metaphor holds even if we consider each "factoid" a mere snowflake. It's almost as if we need another category - Filtering - to ease the strain as we go through this very sensible thought process. But how do we do that? When I look at all the variables - or at least the ones I see - it's quite a mass of contradictions and unknowns. It is a bit worrisome that the future seems so unclear. I'm curious - what is the time horizon for long term strategy planning? Has the time horizon changed over the years? <abbr><em>Brad Shorr’s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordSellInc/~3/rdTAeWQCtVs/" rel="nofollow">Business Model Innovation Comes before Branding and Marketing</a></abbr></em> Bill, It seems to me that we are being buried under an avalanche of information, and I think the metaphor holds even if we consider each “factoid” a mere snowflake. It’s almost as if we need another category – Filtering – to ease the strain as we go through this very sensible thought process. But how do we do that?

When I look at all the variables – or at least the ones I see – it’s quite a mass of contradictions and unknowns. It is a bit worrisome that the future seems so unclear. I’m curious – what is the time horizon for long term strategy planning? Has the time horizon changed over the years?

Brad Shorr’s last blog post..Business Model Innovation Comes before Branding and Marketing

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