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Metrics, Induction (multiplies learning)
Empowerment, Truth Derived from Empowerment
Executive Mindset, Need Communication
Consciousness, Comedy of Errors, Management by

1306 -    ..
1307 - Summary/Objective
1308 -
130801 - Follow up ref SDS 3 line 336, ref SDS 4 line 297.
130802 -
130803 - This record develops ideas on the executive mindset that views the
130804 - cause of management difficulties as arising from others who do not
130805 - tell the truth.
130806 -
130807 - Communication Metrics empowers people to discover, preserve, know,
130808 - understand and act on the truth, which is central to the NWO paper,
130809 - ref SDS 2 line 253.
130810 -
130811 -     [See organic structure of consciousness, ref SDS 12 2222.]
130812 - ..
130813 - Management today seems to be a comedy of errors because people
130814 - are working by conversation and email that are supported by mere
130815 - hunch and hope, guess and gossip.
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130817 - Examples of management bumbling are on 950327. ref SDS 2 0200
130818 -
130819 -     [On 990303 scientific paper on cause of bumbling. ref SDS 19 6120]
130820 -
130821 - Understandings reflect personal perspectives, interests and capacities
130822 - which vary between individuals and within individuals from moment to
130823 - moment as a function of organic state and life experience that create
130824 - schemas which instruct the mind what to do.  This organic state often
130825 - conflicts with reality.
130826 -
130827 -     [See support from Landauer's paper on induction, ref SDS 13 4488;
130828 -     example from IBM's award of DOS to Microsoft, ref SDS 14 2222; see
130829 -     a "Day at the Dentist" ref SDS 18 9999 and ref SDS 17 0576.]
130830 - ..
130831 - As the amount of work devoted to information goes up, the number
130832 - of mistakes necessarily goes up, absent a means to maintain continuity
130833 - of meaning, i.e., alignment.  Knowing the "truth" becomes
130834 - problematical, telling the truth is equally so.  Formulation that
130835 - "truth needs an ally" was used in the letter to PMI on Asilomar,
130836 - ref SDS 9 line 176. Communication Metrics is the valuable ally that
130837 - maintains "truth," so people are "empowered" to act on it.
130838 -
130839 -      [See again support from Landauer's paper on induction, ref SDS 13
130840 -      line 297, ref SDS 13 line 318 and ref SDS 6 line 440.]
130841 -
130842 -      [See support from Asilomar results ref SDS 17 line 349.]
130843 - ..
130844 - On 960501 I developed a correlation between concern among CEOs
130845 - about subordinates who do not tell the truth, and leadership that
130846 - "empowers" better performance. ref SDS 10 1852
130847 -
130848 - On 950412 "truth" as an excuse for poor CEO performance became
130849 - evident. ref SDS 3 3920
130850 -
130851 - "Truth" is a moving target requires leadership to provide tools and
130852 - support to maintain alignment. ref SDS 10 4488
130853 -
130854 -      [On 990625 article on why CEOs fail. ref SDS 20 4914]
130855 -
130856 - CEOs and executives cannot tell the truth any better than anyone else,
130857 - ref SDS 9 line 162, because the real problem is that nobody has the
130858 - power to "know" the truth, since "knowledge" is comprised of the
130859 - connections between various pieces of information.  Events move too
130860 - quickly today for people to grasp these connections and remember them,
130861 - or keep up with the changing flux of connections (see "fragility of
130862 - memory" on 950204, ref SDS 1 0550, and on 951212 people can "remember
130863 - for a minute," ref SDS 5 8870)
130864 -
130865 -      [On 960620 Concurrent Discovery proposed. ref SDS 15 1101]
130866 - ..
130867 - Many connections are "induced" under Dr. Thomas Landauer's work
130868 - on "Plato's Problem" explaining his ideas on Latent Semantic Analysis
130869 - (LSA), ref SDS 6 line 450, ref SDS 7 line 412, and so and without a
130870 - "metric" to discover the errors and maintain alignment, truth is a
130871 - moving target - see in particular ref SDS 13 line 317 and ref SDS 6
130872 - line 441.
130873 -
130874 -      [On 960620 paper "Dialog, Documents and Human Memory..." for
130875 -      Asilomar on "Truth is Moving Target" ref SDS 15 5678]
130876 -
130877 -      [Also paper for Morris on Obsticles to Leadership, ref SDS 16
130878 -      line 153.]
130879 -
130880 - Problem of "truth is a moving target" is developed in the letter to
130881 - PMI on Asilomar and NWO ref SDS 9 8888, and on 960502 in a draft for
130882 - Turner to send on Asilomar at ref SDS 11 3333
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130884 -
130885 -  ..
130886 - Consciousness
130887 -
130888 - The general problem seems to be defining what occurs during the human
130889 - state of "consciousness," discussed in the Time magazine article
130890 - reviewed on 960409. ref SDS 8 2627, ref SDS 8 5001
130891 -
130892 - We are absorbing input, processing it against what is already there
130893 - and the current state of organic need, or perceived need.
130894 -
130895 - Consciousness seems to function at a variety of levels.
130896 -
130897 -     [On 960510 developed corrleation between the various states mental
130898 -     awareness or consciousness. ref SDS 12 5672]
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