
Do Muscles Really Have a Memory?
Smart Muscles in Sports The term muscle memory has been around a long time. I usually hear it in relation to a sport, such as a golf swing. You practice over-and-over, thinking about the mechanics each time. There are many check-points:...
read moreDeeply Held Beliefs May Dumb Us Down
Say What? I admit the title of this post is provocative, but it's true - at least part of the time. And it could prevent you from seeing the obvious. I'm not exactly sure where this field of study lies, perhaps social psychology. It relates to topics such as the...
read moreBrainstorming’s Epic Fail
People, We Have a Problem The term "brainstorming" has become generic and is being applied to almost any form of individual or group creative thinking. But there is still a lot of Classic brainstorming in the workplace, and that is the focus of my rant. The concept...
read moreTesting the Limits of the Five Whys
Origins The Five Whys is a root cause analysis purportedly originated in the 1950s by Toyota. But the simplicity of the methodology surely indicates origins much earlier than auto manufacturing. Since the earliest days of cognition, humans have been using logical...
read moreWhy Another Blog?
Blogs Gone Wild With over 200 million blog sites in existence, why does the world need another one? Maybe the world doesn't need one, but I do. I recently read an author’s comment on journaling, which could be considered an earlier form of the blog. The reason...
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