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Clark Quinn

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Fish & Chips Economics

Clark Quinn

A colleague, after hearing my take on economics, suggested I should tell this story. And that’s an important “doesn’t make sense” Because, economics tells us that competition will drive a continuing increase in the quality of products and services. It’s a bit light-hearted, but it does make a point.

Cognitive 165
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Economic Impact

Clark Quinn

I’ve gone off already on the economic times and what I see are valuable steps for organizations: investing in capability. For me, it’s several projects that have gone on hold (extra capability available, call now, operators are standing by). I very much believe in walking the walk, so I’m investing in my own capability.

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Economic Catastrophe (& more culture)

Clark Quinn

I’m finding it hard today to be positive after listening to a couple of well-reasoned analyses of our economic crisis. One analyzes the current economic crisis, explaining the complex economic structures created and unregulated (admittedly a US perspective).

Culture 100
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Thinking about reframing

Clark Quinn

Because we’re not likely to drive one borough/neighborhood/town over to get it when what’s close is ‘good enough’ You can get backup from behavioral economics or the work of Daniel Kahneman about how we aren’t logical beings. And economics is linked to politics about whether all the real costs are included.

Cognitive 290
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Beyond Industrial Age Thinking

Clark Quinn

Factories got economic advantage from scale. Here I’ll suggest we need to move beyond Industrial Age thinking. The premise comes from business. We transitioned from a largely agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy, of goods and services. We also essentially treated people as parts of the machine.

Industry 295
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Complexity in Learning Design

Clark Quinn

Behavioral economics and Daniel Kahneman’s research have made this abundantly clear. Scientifically, we’re finding there are lots of complex interactions between the current context, our prior experience, and our cognitive architecture. We try to avoid the hard mental work using shortcuts that work sometimes, but not others.

Cognitive 325
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A new common tragedy?

Clark Quinn

In the traditional economic model, it’s limited. So here’s my exploration of a potential new common tragedy. The idea of the commons is simple, though also somewhat controversial. There’s a shared resource. In this case, however, the potential tragedy is different.