"... I must compliment Derek on his ... facilitation of the BPI Problem Solving course ... . This would probably be the best 2 days of training I have ever attended - and I've been to quite a few!"
- Management participant - Critical Thinking workshop
Merck Sharp & Dohme
"Complementary" means something that completes or makes perfect!
- Ricardo Carlos
"Rationality includes intuition."
- Ricardo Carlos
The only proof you have a mind is that you change it, once in a while, when you find an argument more convincing than your own.
- paraphrase of J.M. Keynes
"People are moving further and further away from what
thinking actually is and more and more into running a script."
- Jordan Greenhall
CEO, The Neurohacker Collective
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove."
- Steve Jobs
"Participating in the entire class, especially through the end for the last practice exercise was, for me, the key success factor since my objective was to gain practical experience. I was in a group that worked on a real-work project."
-Workshop Participant
"The most important story we will ever write in life is our own - not with ink, but with our daily choices."
- Richard Paul Evans
(The Gift, p104)
"Things take longer than they do."
-Augustine's (Norman) Law #1
"An airplane is only a collection of spare parts flying in close formation."
- Augustine's (Norman) Law #2
"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
- Augustine's (Norman) Law #3 (also see Elliott Jaques on managing complexity))
"In committees, be as vague as possible, this avoids irritating the others."
-Augustine's (Norman) Law #4
"Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees."
-Will Rogers
(Curiosity) is the ultimate tool to produce simple solutions for complex problems.
-Harvard Business Review
"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room."
-Marcel Schwantes
"Every manager MUST be held accountable not only for the work of subordinates but also for adding value to their work - "
-Elliott Jaqques
"We don't need flat organizations. We need layers of accountability and skill."
-Elliott Jaques
"Startle Reflex - orienting (you) toward what you did not expect ... Seeking meaning ..."
-Jordan Peterson
"Fuzzy thinking correlates with failed solutions."
B.J. Fogg (Stanford University)
"I used the BPI Troubleshooter Tablet and learned a great deal from my team today. Thank you!"
HBF - Sr. Mgr Continuous Improvement
"If you CANNOT explain something in SIMPLE terms, you don't understand it."
- Richard Feynman
"Fools despise wisdom and instruction."
Book of Wisdom - Proverbs O.T.
"Give attention that you may gain understanding."
Book of Wisdom - Proverbs O.T.
"Do not reprove a scoffer ... reprove a wise man and he will love you."
Book of Wisdom - Proverbs O.T.
"EDUCATE your intuition - don't just defend it.
Ricardo Carlos
