The
STEM industries are inherenently transactional. Our project in creating, in 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 our founder
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."
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If you're a
read-the-back-of-the-book type, skip to the
summary at the end.
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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webinars. 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.
We
are talking about 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
STEM careers, (what others have I missed?), apply to become a Sophrosyne Ambassador by
contacting BonnieRobin Watau. 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).
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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, BonnieRobin wrote one of my favorite articles:
Gain insights into Global Supply Chain Resilience in 3½ minutes, in
Perspectives Vol II, Issue 15, article 4:
P(II)15,4. In it, she brilliantly maps out the basics of
supply network excellence via the wordless language of dance! While Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire bring some of the best flourishes ever recorded on the silver screen, our take-away is the cross-disciplinary insights available from this fresh
perspective.
Summary: 5 traits to foster for STEM career success
- » Translate on-the-fly, so that we speak the language of our customer. To do anything else marks us as a tacky tourist rather than a savvy servant leader.
- » Implement both innovation and imitation to achieve resilience as we strive for scale.
- » There are times & places where a hive-mind is a very good thing.
- » Humbly recognizing that we don't what know we don't know can be the biggest innovation of all(!)
- » Cross-disciplinary insight takes us up the stairs of the lighthouse, so that we rise above the fog of modern media, to see over the horizon, gaining strategic advantage. [Return]
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