Week 3:4 And What Enables.

If I spend a lot of time looking at what prevents I could be here all day, all week, all century, analysing, analysing.  But sometimes I reminded to look for what enables.  Enablers have a way of looking at a complex whole, the whole fruit as it were. Rather than saying the human body needs water and fibre and vitamins and trace elements and crunch and apple-ness… and then analysing whether one needs more of one than the other or working out which part one needs, you work out how to get apples to people.  How to grow trees, how to identify people who grow better apples.  Do not address the juice of the apple first, first address the apple.

Today I met an enabler, Carys Watts.  She runs the course BSc Honours Biomedical Sciences with Business which has the amazing (amazingly obvious when you come to think of it) characteristic of giving each student two supervisors: one from The School of Biomedical Sciences and the other from Newcastle University Business School, NUBS.  This model must exist in other parts of the university.  Cross faculty collaboration.

Have I missed the boat so completely with smart phones that I can’t even find a newbies guide to using my work phone?  Ah well… I have 12 days to become proficient and that should be enough, right?  But then I do want to do other stuff in my day day day day day day day

Best method of learning for me is to try and try and maybe succeed and definitely have unanswered questions and then get an expert to tell me and irritate me with superior knowledge.  That person may be a 10 year old.

When it comes to complex decisions, customers are not convinced unless they see all the steps that lead to a decision.