Henry Ford once wondered querulously, “Why is it that whenever I ask for a pair of hands, a brain comes attached?” Imagine if Wright brothers had to take approvals from their manager, General Managers etc. to build an airplane; or Thomas Edison had to first satisfy his bosses for his 1093 patents. They would have [...]
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How can I diffuse “thinking” into my “doing” organization?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ideas, Innovation, Organisation, Success, thinking on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Syed Adeel ur Rahman
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Philosophy- Margaret Lucas Cavendish[Revised entry by David Cunning on May 24, 2012. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Margaret Lucas Cavendish was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright who lived in the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. One is that it lays out an early and very compelling version of the naturalism that i […]
- Reism[Revised entry by Jan Woleński on May 21, 2012. Changes to: Bibliography] Reism is the doctrine that only things exist. The name is derived from the Latin noun res ('thing'). The interpretation of this very rough view depends on how things are understood. Reism was anticipated by many nominalists (that is, philosophers maintaining that only individ […]
- Bohmian Mechanics[Revised entry by Sheldon Goldstein on May 21, 2012. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Bohmian mechanics, which is also called the de Broglie-Bohm theory, the pilot-wave model, and the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, is a version of quantum theory discovered by Louis de Broglie in 1927 and rediscovered by David Bohm in 1952. It is the simplest […]
- Quantum Theory: von Neumann vs. Dirac[Revised entry by Fred Kronz and Tracy Lupher on May 21, 2012. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] An ongoing debate in the foundations of physics concerns the role of mathematical rigor in theorizing. The contrasting views of von Neumann and Dirac provide interesting and informative insights concerning two sides of this debate. Von Neumann's contribut […]
- Margaret Lucas Cavendish
