Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. -William Shakespeare from Romeo and Juliet Hello, Welcome to episode 25! If you have listened to more than a couple of our previous episodes, you may have noticed that I am a fan of the ideas of a gentleman named Cal Newport. Cal’s elevator pitch from his … Continue reading Episode #025- Whoa…. Slow Down

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ― Archimedes Hello, Welcome to episode 24! The last few episodes have been very organization, macro centric. For this episode, I decided to return to ideas that impact the micro, you. The individual. I first … Continue reading Episode #024- Leverage

It is not our workers and operators who need fixing, it is our workplaces. -Todd Conklin, PHD- The 5 Principles of Human Performance Hello! I am interested in focusing on judgment, reason, and/or decision-making processes by workers within work environments. Since the 1979 Three Mile Island Accident and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, research has … Continue reading Episode #023- Human Performance

Underneath every simple, obvious story about ‘human error,’ there is a deeper, more complex story about the organization. -Sydney Dekker from The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ After my recent series on former Alcoa CEO Paul O’Neill, Listeners have commented that safety does not have a place in their workspace. Office environments, banks, retail, … Continue reading Episode #022- Safety, defined.

“The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Dumb people … think they're super smart, because they are so spectacularly stupid, they don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They are so dumb; they don't even know that other people know a lot more about a topic than they do.”― Oliver Markus Malloy In 1999, Justin Kruger and … Continue reading Episode #021- Monkeys Are Better Than You?

“If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.” ― Stephen Richards In our last episode, Paul O’Neill, Part 2, I spent time laying out much of Paul’s early experience.  I did this because I wanted to convey that O’Neill was, as I mentioned at the beginning of this series, … Continue reading Episode #020- Paul O’Neill- Pt. 3

Great leaders lead from a bedrock of core values and principles…. There is no better example of such a leader than Paul O’Neill. His bedrock was his family, his faith, and a set of well-articulated principles. -John S. Toussaint M.D. Founder/Chairman of Catalysis Paul O’Neill is a senior, and his son is Paul O’Neill Jr.  … Continue reading Episode #019- Paul O’Neill- Pt. 2

“Never compare your inside with someone else’s outside.”     -Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody Hi all! Welcome to the 17th episode of A New Order of Things. Ove the past week or so, I have uncharacteristically been involved in conversations where the people I am speaking with discuss how they are interested in and/or … Continue reading Episode #017- The Fallacy of Comparison

Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. -Abigail Adams Hello, welcome to Episode 16: The Great Learning Here at A New Order of Things, we look to gain knowledge by researching and tying often disparate ideas together. In this episode, we look to various ideas across various … Continue reading Episode #016- The Great Learning