nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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 Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: Voltage Drops/Amps, Cabbages and Kings |
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At 06:16 PM 7/24/2009, you wrote:
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>From my experience debugging problems like this, it always helps to have
an extra set of eyes (hopefully with a brain behind them) to which I
explain how the system is supposed to work.
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This is a CORE COMPONENT of every successful skunk-werks
venture. While privileged to be an employee of the
targets business unit at Beech/RAC/HBC, every time a
program or portion of a program wan in trouble, a
meeting was called. In some organizations, such
meetings are uncomfortable events entered
with foreboding. The mind-set of many folks walking
in was to figure out ways to avoid blame. If one leaves
with less stress, it's probably because they were not
found at fault and some other poor sap was taking the hit.
My leaders and colleagues both understood recipes
for success demonstrated many times in the
past by the likes of Kettering, Johnson, Kay, Beech,
Lear, et. als. They understood that it's a rare
mind that can grasp the totality of a program
and that the intellectual whole is greater than
the sum of its parts. Meetings at the Beech targets
unit were always something to be welcomed . . .
anyone walking in with a problem walked out with
new insight, additional support, a map for future
learning. Everyone walked out with a sense of
accomplishment.
This isn't about, positions of hierarchy or
competition. It's about the joy of finding things
out (being a good student) and then sharing that
understanding with others (being a good teacher).
We were all diligent students of the ideas demonstrated
by participants of the original Skunk Works.
I suggest that we would do well to bring the same
goals to the activity here on the List. Our
skunk-werks isn't a single facility, it's
thousands of facilities scattered all over the
planet. We're not working one momentous task
to be delivered in 180 days, we have thousands
of projects that will take years. But the
task is the same. Produce machines that perform
to design goals operated by pilots who understand
how those goals were selected, achieved and
maintained.
Meetings at the Matronics List Servers should
always be something to be welcomed . . .
anyone posting a problem or sharing an idea
should look forward to achieving new insight, additional
support for a problem, and map for future learning.
It would be well if everyone who takes the time to
participate or simply observe happenings on the
Lists walk away with a sense of accomplishment.
Our teachers were not carving a place in history
for themselves, they were striving to share
their understanding with as many folks as
possible. They knew that the more times good ideas
and recipes for success are shared, the more
valuable they become.
Bob . . .
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( . . . a long habit of not thinking )
( a thing wrong, gives it a superficial )
( appearance of being right . . . )
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( -Thomas Paine 1776- )
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