Problem Solving and Decision Making Tools – bCisive by Austhink

Problem solving and decision making are crucial activities for any organization, large or small – or for sub-organizations, mid-level or top-level – or even for individuals.  The usual approach to these activities or events is personal thinking and unstructured discussions.  Notes or records are often informal and impermanent.  Is it any wonder that these activities are risky and stressful?

Before computers, problems and decisions could be worked out with pen and paper.

A computer gives us more powerful and flexible tools.

Beautiful DVD: Cider House Rules

Mr. Rose is a shadowy character, and just as he is dying, he delivers a line that summarizes the Cider House Rules film: “Sometimes you gotta break some rules to put things right.”

Fareed Zakaria wrote “What Bush Got Right”

Do you get the feeling that America is locked into an inexorable, downward spiraling, nose dive?  Do you fear that Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, Israel and Palestine, China, and others present an insurmountable impediment to our future?

Do you ever wonder whether the news you hear is intentionally presented so as to keep you apprehensive, unsure, and willing, if not anxious, to support massive government spending?

The Beauty and Power of DVDs

I just watched Dirty Dancing, the Twentieth Anniversary DVD set, which I recently found at our local Barnes & Noble store.  I listened to Patrick Swayze explain how similar his background was to that of Johnny Castle, the character he played.  And I learned how life came to imitate art, while rehearsing and shooting the film in 1987, as the cast got into their roles, literally as well as figuratively – very much as it happened during the filming of M*A*S*H, nearly two decades earlier.

I thought, once again, how much I loved DVDs and what I was able to learn from them.

Then, I wondered if I could explain clearly what I love about DVDs and why.