The STEM industries are inherenently transactional. Our initiative in creating | crafting STEM & STEAM opportunities equalizes the differences in relationship-centered and transaction-centered speech, starting early, during this decade of marvelous transformation, ages 14-24 years.

Over these ten transformative years, children who will become successful mature into young adults. For others, age arrives alone, says leadership legend John Maxwell.

As my co-author Matt Weilert has repeatedly said,

"Many people are socialized to use relationship-centered speech – it's all they know. Yet transactional speech is inherently required in STEM industries, because they deal with the objective truth of chemical properties, physical limits of metals, material shaping constraints, etc.

"Anyone who says that their 'opinion has evolved' on the melting point of tungsten, marks themselves as a buffoon disqualified from having decision input on logistics, purchasing, material selection and a host of other disciplines central to a STEM-industries career."
 

When & where is a hive-mind a good thing?

In high-performance scenarios and in process industries, having a controlled vocabulary and a team that responds with practiced efficiency can mean the difference between life and death (such as carrier operations at sea), or the difference between profit and loss. As Dirty Jobs educator Mike Rowe says so pointedly: "in­no­va­tion without im­i­ta­tion is a waste of time."

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"in­no­va­tion without im­i­ta­tion is a waste of time."

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Systemkey™ Risk Solutions deliver business intimacy. Business Intimacy fosters, reinforces and sustains trust. Trust will consistently deliver exponentially improved risk results, when compared on a total lifecycle costs basis.

A central theme of the Sophrosyne Ambassador's project is "Speaking the Language of YOUR Customer."

We're not talking about the linguistic differences of Maltese vs. Farsi vs. the patois of Southern Louisiana. That is part of the richness of a diverse workforce. Nor are we talking about those for whom English is a second language, who charmingly put the accent on a different syllable than we native speakers do.

What we are talking about is the discipline and humility to build the trust that is the precursor to innovation! If you want to be part of an expanding groundswell of activities to empower young women (& men!) to succeed in science, technology, finance, manufacturing (what others have I missed?) STEM careers, apply to become a Sophrosyne Ambassador by contacting me. We anticipate the program launching in parallel with our 2016 spring internships.

Imagine the nightmare for air travelers, if cockpit layouts for the same brand of aircraft manufacturer differed between airlines. There are hundreds of split second decisions that depend on having an identical environment – for the safety of the passengers & crew, but just as importantly, for the economic viability of the airline in minimizing turn-around time and building workforce resiliency (as Southwest does).

In many cases, according to researcher John Shook, we're finding businesses are 'reshoring' in fact, bringing production back to the US, because the cultural differences and the radical difference in what we value, over the lifecycle of a product, overwhelm the short-term cost advantage of an in-vogue solution that hasn't been fully thought through.
 

Solution Roadmap for Youth

The Harry Potter stories have proven kids LOVE to READ if the story is good enough. The Blue Two™ saga is part of the pathway to develop & deliver STEM & STEAM excellence. Reach out for more details if this rings a bell.

Solution Roadmap for Adults in Supply Networks

Resilience, or the capacity to deliver creative solutions when things go off plan, arises from Granularity, or how closely we observe the world around us – and the human experience lived day-to-day, moment-by-moment.

In the language of business, such level of detail is aggressively opposed and often fiercely resisted, yet in the language of music or dance, it is natively, intuitively understood. At the elite level, a musician's or dancer's every nuance conveys meaning, no motion or expression is wasted.

A year ago, I wrote one of my favorite articles to date: Gain insights into Global Supply Chain Resilience in 3½ minutes, in Perspectives Vol II, Issue 15, article 4: P(II)15,4.

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