Business

Targeted Learning, Meandering Learning: Exploitation vs. Exploring Learning In Organizational Context

Exploration learning is associated with experiment, discovery, play, risk … and long-term perspective. 

Exploitation learning is associated with refinement, efficiency, production, execution…and short-term perspective. An organization that fails to properly balance the allocation of resources between these two will eventually face some crises. For instance, emphasis on exploration learning is likely to yield anemic profits, and focusing only Read More

We’ve heard about economic development in Los Alamos many times and, in our opinion, the way it’s presently conceived and practiced, it’s simply counterproductive because it is not compatible with present reality or future predictions for our community, and we badly need another business development program, supported by the community.

The present economic reality for Los Alamos is:

• The population is continuously decreasing by >3 percent since 2000, and by 2020 the median age will be above 50, making

(Sometimes) Ignorance Is Bliss … Unless It’s By Design

First, an update on the previous column, a fantasy regarding goats and bureaucracy. It could be real!

Washington Post had a story about a magician, his rabbit and bureaucracy (link listed below.) The magician had to file a “Rabbit Disaster” plan to satisfy an antiquated rule of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Evidently, the magician’s license was contingent on his rabbit rather than on his skills. My column was a pure fantasy, but maybe it was not so far-fetched?! 

Today, I want to tie “compartmentalization” and “ignorance.” Read More