Posts Tagged ‘Equity’

A Human-Centered Society

In Beyond Quick Fixes (Rouse, 2024) I considered how human-centered interventions could mitigate the health, education, energy, and mis/dis information challenges addressed in this book.  I explored how these ecosystems could benefit from seeing them as human-centered systems.  This led to my postulating how all four challenges could be mitigated as a whole, reflecting an […]

When Secondary Issues Dominate

Most organizations have missions and visions for how best to pursue missions, regardless of whether these value statements are formalized or not.  Organizational performance metrics indicate how well the organization is performing in terms of revenues, profits, lives saved or students educated.  Successful organizations excel in terms of organizational performance.  Most organizations try to improve […]

What Has Changed

I began my career as an engineering assistant at Raytheon over 50 years ago.  Since then, I have founded and managed five high-tech companies, and held faculty positions at six universities.  These experiences led to working with 100+ companies, agencies, foundations, etc.  What has changed over the course of this journey? Increased computing power at […]