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Social Trust

On April 10, 2012 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Social trust is confidence that others we meet will not try to harm or cheat us, and that they will at least try to do what they say. To live well using a lot less, new business models have to increase resource sharing, which presumes more social trust than most of us [...]

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Building Microbiomes?

On March 22, 2012 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Leading edge research in the Built Environment is exploring the distribution of microbes found inside buildings. Many researchers have investigated other contaminants, but not microbes. Because we spend 90 percent of our time in buildings, the Built Environment has a major influence on health. Learning about it cuts across many fields, but [...]

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Servant Leadership and Vigorous Learning

On March 8, 2012 By Compression Institute
Key to developing a vigorous learning organization

Every work organization is a learning organization to some extent, or it’s no longer alive, so we’re really talking about invigorating their learning processes. You’ll find a lot about the Vigorous Learning Company on our web site. There’s enough to it to keep anyone mulling a while, and it’s not appreciated without [...]

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The Art of the Question

On November 30, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Every one of us is subject to confirmation bias. That is, we pay more attention to evidence that confirms past beliefs than to evidence that these beliefs are untrue. Our neural processes just work this way, even in scientific logic, where it is said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. While confirmation bias keeps [...]

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Striking Against Ourselves

On September 8, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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September 8, 2011

The Compression Institute is crawling toward developing a movement unlike any known precedent. Organizing ourselves for vigorous learning within some legal framework is, from a human view, a bigger challenge than the global messes we seek to address. At any age, stepping up to a very different view of our purpose and [...]

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Learning Systems for Learning Organizations

On May 27, 2011 By David Veech
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David Veech, May 26, 2011

The Compression Institute is recommending that organizations take aggressive steps to become vigorous learning organizations.  We make this recommendation because we lack perfect information. We can’t perfectly predict the future. Therefore an organization’s best hope for weathering whatever storms may come is the collective ingenuity and creativity of its people [...]

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What’s a Deming Fractal?

On April 26, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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April 26, 2011

In a new book, Obliquity, John Kay addresses problem solving as seen by many CEOs and career politicians: wicked, systemic, dynamic, and wretched. Caretaker leaders try to avoid this with financial management that assumes a future that is an extension of the past, but “poker playing” leaders love this game. It excites [...]

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Preparing for Black Swans

On March 29, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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March 29, 2011

The Sendai (or Tohoku) earthquake has been called a “Black Swan,” a totally unforeseeable event. Can organizations prepare for black swans, or that idea totally illogical hokum?

An example of a pure black swan event was discovery of archaea, the third form of life other than flora and fauna. Before seeing it, [...]

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Compressing Our Learning Time

On February 9, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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February 9, 2011

Of all the things that need compressing, the most urgent is the time wasted connecting the dots of global “issues” with decisions that working organizations need to make today. We need to get on with them. Compression Thinkers have to be alert spotting items and seeing connections beyond markets. For instance, these [...]

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PortionPac Chemical – Compression Pioneer

On January 13, 2011 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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January 13, 2011

Marvin Klein and Syd Weisberg founded PortionPac in Chicago in 1964, selling to the institutional and industrial janitorial market that typically bought 5-gallon pails and 500 pound, 55-gallon drums of cleaning detergents. Decades before the book, they began acting on the kernel [...]

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Compressing Our Differences

On October 20, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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October 20, 2010

From tribal wars to functional silo squabbles, rifts among people that don’t understand the world the same way seem to be a normal condition. Even an affinity for multiple human factions at once does not assure that we’re able to agree with each other. Us-and-them games that consume a great deal of [...]

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Progress by Asking Better Questions

On October 5, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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October 5, 2010

Basic arithmetic has definitive answers. Most other problems are only resolved using countermeasures that take us to a better state, presuming that we agree on what might be “better.” If we can’t do that, our problems run deeper than tough technical issues. Given this difficulty, we’re making progress [...]

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Organizational Adaptability

On September 21, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Sept. 28, 2010

Rapid adaptation characterizes a Vigorous Learning Company as described in the book Compression. The need to adapt can come from any cause: market shift, financial crisis, environmental changes, and resource shortages among many others.

One way that work organizations innovate quickly is a “Silicon Valley” model, breaking [...]

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For Vigorous Learning, Dare to Dialog

On September 8, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Sept. 8, 2010

Whether accepting a new view of ourselves “rewires” our brain is unknown, but a truly open exchange – dialog – can be traumatic. To engage in this we have to let down our psychological barriers and prepare our minds to see things we may have been unaware of.

Some inabilities to do [...]

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Rules of Learning

On August 25, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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“Rules of engagement” is a phrase familiar to military personnel engaged in almost any mission. Any vigorous learning enterprise has a characteristic in common with the military, a mission shared and hopefully understood by all. Military rules of engagement shift depending on a unit’s mission, and perhaps even its situation. Few [...]

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Vigorous Learning

On August 12, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

Even if resources aren’t limited, consuming them just to generate economic activity isn’t smart. Lean thinking starts down this path, but is limited because the present system stresses labor productivity. Financial hackles rise when labor is paid, but does nothing. However, the system’s logic does not question whether entire business models are waste. It assumes [...]

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Titanic Syndrome

On June 15, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall
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Bad news from the Gulf continues to flow. Much of it is about which culprits to blame and who pays. Stock caps, bonuses, and dividends are at risk. Liability lawyers circle their own version of black gold. This fiasco point up how a huge economic superstructure is built on the ability of [...]

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Does Vigorous Learning Need “Work Rules?”

On April 26, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

April 26, 2010:

In a nutshell, yes. Just to function, every organization needs work rules and standard procedures. And we know some best practices of fast-learning organizations today:

Open to innovation from anywhere: sustain R&D; have playpens or spin-offs to experiment with new business models; structure to sprout new businesses while letting old ones die [...]
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What is Vigorous Learning

On January 6, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

“Vigorous” suggests several attributes of learning. First, that it should be aggressive, and a core part of daily activity. Second, in work organizations, learning is primarily directed to its mission and goals, but not exclusively; organizations must venture “outside their boxes.” Third, within work organizations learning is collective; since everyone’s work is connected, don’t let [...]

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Vigorous Learning Enterprises

On January 4, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

To deal with Compression, working organizations need to migrate toward becoming “vigorous learning enterprises.”

This kind of self-learning organization has a shallow hierarchy, and much work has to be done by people working together with minimal direction. They need systems of communication that are well-developed behaviorally as well as structurally. In effect, [...]

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Methodologies for Learning to Learn

On January 4, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

Learning in this context is self-discovery of something not known to the learner, even if well-known to others. Even in classroom teaching of well-known basics, students are frequently asked to do experiments and exercises so that they experience a modicum of discovery on their own, doing more than absorbing rote facts.

In work organizations, learning [...]

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Behavior for Collective Learning

On January 4, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

In an individualistic society, most of us would rather be extolled for making a winning sports play than for merely making the block that set it up — or playing the role of an opponent in practice that prepped a star player to fake her out. We struggle to value the importance of tightly integrated [...]

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Leadership for Vigorous Learning

On January 4, 2010 By Robert W. "Doc" Hall

A vigorous learning enterprise is not apt to be in any stable state very long, but always in some kind of transition. The changes are not likely to be confined to products, services, and processes, but include basic “business models,” in today’s terminology. That is, what it does and how it gets revenue doing it [...]

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