Business Matters - Learning and Leadership

To :    All

Subject: Leadership and Learning

These were taken up during TOES at 3f

1.  Definition of terms

    Leadership is getting ahead of others;   It is taking a point of view and taking a forceful action.  Here courage and determination is needed

2.  Learning

    1.   Learning occurs when there is

        1.  Sunnao   -  openness to new ideas and change

        2.  Listening

    2.   What you teach yourself -  not what the book says, or what the trainor says.  

            No learning occurs when your mind is closed;

            The purpose of education is replace a closed mind with an open one.  

    3.  Learning occurs during a communication process:

               S                   ---->   R   could be two fold:    1.  Action     2.  Learning

    4.  There has to be a metric in learning process;  hence we give grades.   And we measure this via grades or achievement test, because we value

          learning,    We measure what we treasure""

   3.  Learning rewards and punishment

        Rewards are given to those who learn, and negative reinforcements to those who do not

        As in Pavlovian conditioning experiments, behaviors are interconnected with signals, and associations reenforced via rewards -  like food.  Training dogs,

        pigeons, and dolphins and shows occur because of rewards that reenforce desired behavior

        The rewards in training in corporate setting are:    compliments, promotions, and higher salary

4.  Learning and leadership

      There are certain types of leaders who need superior knowledge to advance:    philosophers, theologians, priests, academicians; sages.  

       Even political leaders need knowledge:   political savvy, knowledge of politicas, power and authority, laws in order to succeed;   warrior leaders

       need superior knowledge of combat, wars and strategy

5.   ACTION POTENTIAL PROGRAM

      1.  As what business leaders and entrepreneur, READ ONE BOOK A DAY;   as what our HR requires, read one book a month;

           A book a month keeps ignorance and poverty away.  Invest in your body and mind.   Eat good food and read good books related to your career

    2.  Engage in lifelong learning.  Your daily life is your classroom learn from it.  That is why we have university of life and lifelong learning programs/degree

         Your learning does not stop at the university.  It has just begun.  That is why they call this commencement rites (the graduation in the university)

    3.   Learn equally from experiences, especially the bad.  They are right, God gives you problems to make you stronger and skillful and navigating life

           They help you mature faster.   Stop blaming God for your problems.  Many problems are created by fellow human beings including yourself.   

   4.  Have a journal where you list down your learning.  This is one of the greatest legacy of high school days.  To maintain a journal or notebook where 

         you list down your learning.  You cant depend on your memory to remember all these things.   

    5.  Practice your memory.  Read read.  Your mind deteriorates from non use.  Hence elderly develops dementia and /or Alzheimers disease

    

The more you think, the more you become human; our brain differentiates us from animals

To      All

Subject:   THE NEED FOR MORE THINKING, ESPECIALLY CRITICAL THINKING

1. Having a bigger brain distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom

    That advantage enabled us to:

   1.  Talk making communications and learning easier and faster

   2.  Make tools discoveries and breakthroughs in production and gadgets

   3.   Overcome predators, enemies and  natural disasters..

2.  The permutations of the brain runs into Trillion pathways and therefore

      our ability to remember things is endless,   Anybody can be just

      like Ernie Baron to remember the contents of the encyclopedia

3.  Our brain can remember movements like walking.  It cost Honda at least

     a $100 million to make a robot wak and 10 years.  It costs practically nothing 

     and only 10 years to make a robot walk.  Not just facts.

     Your brain is more potent and powerful than the memory of the CP or laptop

      Use this to the fullest potential 

4.  The less we use our brain because we have pdas or cp, the more it is put

      into disuse and atrophy (it becomes less sharp)  The more you use your

      brain the more you become human

5.   Thus practice this by:

      1.  Reading

      2.  Solving puzzles/problem

      3.  Remembering names and CP number.   

      Thus is one of the cures for Dementia and/or Alzheimer

6.  Practice critical thinking:

     1.  Ask why at least 5 times to learn from problems

     2.  Open your mind to possibility

     3.   Accept the systems principle -  either the ito, or the inputs, throughput,

           output, purpose, environment, human aid, supervision as the model

    4.  Make numbers talk:    as to trend, direction and magnitude

    5.  Avoid the herd mentality;  they said, and therefore I think that way too. 

REMEMBER YOU ARE NOT A KINDERGARDEN STUDENT   Somehow you must mature and learn to think on your own, especially about your job if you are gainfully employed.   

  

Business Matters - Small Holes Sink a ship

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From: Jorge Saguinsin <jorge.holygardens@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 8:06 AM
Subject: Business Matters  - Small Holes Sink a ship

To:       All

Subject:   Business bit -  Small Holes sink a ship

Truly small holes sink a ship.   Holes that you do not see but are plenty, sink a ship.  Not the big ones.  Because the big ones are visible, surely many will see them

and thus prevent the ship from leaving port, or is given top priority among the work.  But the small ones are neglected:

     Related thoughts:

    1.  God is in the details;

    2.  Those who can not be trusted in small things can not be trusted in big things;

    3.   PDCA -  Check check check

    4.  Gemba kaizen -   the actual battle field in business is the sales office or the manufacturing plant.   This should be visited by the boss

          and observed carefully.  It is not enough to depend on written reports

    5.  Small losses add up, ,small cost reduction add up over the years and in the entire enterprise.  Nothing is ever to small not to deserve your attention:

    6.  Be careful of your thoughts, they become your words, your words become your action

    7.  "For want of a nail,  (horse)shoe was lost, for want of a shoe, a horse was lost, for want of a horse the soldier was lost, for want of a soldier an army

          was lost, for want of an army a kingdom was lost

    8.    In writing the presence or absence of a comma can change the thought of a sentence

    9.  Some children are born defective or have serious congenital diseases because of defective gnome sequencing of a chromoome

     Anecdotes

   1.  The Fukushima reactor had a meltdown, because a cooling pump failed to function because the battery was grounded by the flooding; the same thing happened

         in nuclear accident in Chernobyl Russia.   A worker failed to turn on the valve for cooling after a test was conducted.  Imagine a high tech equipment failing because

         of a negligent worker, and a valve that was left open

   2.  The roro that sank of Batangas bay and somewhere in Belgium, sank because the ramp was not closed;

   3.  The JAL plane which cost Boeing nearly half a billion was caused by worker failing to install 7 rivets, just 7 rivets. He forgot about this because he had

         lunch

   4.  In my experience, there was a formwork failure and an entire batch of concrete needed to pour on a slab was wasted;  it was good nobody was hurt

         because of same negligence - the formworks carpenter failed to secure the formwork by pounding a coupe of 5 inches nail.

   5.  In the movie Crimson Tide, a nuclear world war could have started had the order to torpedo a Russian sub was carried out, despite an incomplete communication

        Denzel Washington averted this, because he had the sense to disobey Gene Hackman the captain, unless the complete message was received

    ACTION POTENTIAL:

   1.   Employ the 5H and 1W in your repertoire when making a plan of action;

   2.    Ask the question why five times;

   3.    Read the literature on the subject before proceeding;

   4.    Be meticulous before any action;  avoid shooting from the hips

   5.    Learn from your mistakes.  

       

Ill gotten

It is about getting better...

Rizal Philippines

7.13.2021

A cousin whom I learned is into buying and selling real estate walked with me on the way to the office and interested me into taking a look at several properties:   a hotel,  property near the mall, and one besides a fast food cum dialysis, and art gallery.

The prices are pretty awesome and I asked who owned this.  She said these are owned by a DepEd employee who is close to Napoles.   

Ahh I thought the owner was honorable and admireable as an entrepreneur.   She  was even said to own an aggregates plant in Rodriguez.

So much for the admiration and possible deal.   If the  long tentacles of the law learns of source of money to acquire these properties, these may be sequestered.