{"id":66,"date":"2012-05-17T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-05-17T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:08:22","slug":"what-prevents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/05\/17\/what-prevents\/","title":{"rendered":"What Prevents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 3:4 <strong>And What Enables.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I spend a lot of time looking at what prevents I could be here all day, all week, all century, analysing, analysing.\u00a0 But sometimes I reminded to look for what enables.\u00a0 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&#8230; 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.\u00a0 How to grow trees, how to identify people who grow better apples.\u00a0 Do not address the juice of the apple first, first address the apple.<\/p>\n<p>Today I met an enabler, Carys Watts.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This model must exist in other parts of the university.\u00a0 Cross faculty collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Have I missed the boat so completely with smart phones that I can\u2019t even find a newbies guide to using my work phone?\u00a0 Ah well&#8230; I have 12 days to become proficient and that should be enough, right?\u00a0 But then I do want to do other stuff in my day day day day day day day<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 That person may be a 10 year old.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to complex decisions, customers are not convinced unless they see all the steps that lead to a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 But sometimes I reminded to look for what enables.\u00a0 Enablers have a way of looking at a complex whole, the whole fruit as it were. Rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/05\/17\/what-prevents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Prevents?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}