Transforming Knowledge into Action
It’s less that we need to discover novel insights. It’s that we need to do the hard work of changing our behavior in response to the knowledge at hand.
Quick Reads (Under 5 Minutes)
Short-form insights you can read in under 5 minutes.
Dismantling Idiocracy in STEM Education
Assign STEM students into teams, fixed scope and date, neglect to teach them how to self-organize or lift off. Justify this is preparing them for the real world of work. No. We shouldn’t be teaching our kids how to tolerate and perpetuate idiocracy. We should be dismantling it.
Postponing Our Seasonal Gathering
We postponed our seasonal @StrideDev get together until Spring when rate of spread in Chicago and NYC might decline and we can comfortably meet outdoors. For now, we’ll find safer ways to gather online, outside, and in small groups balancing community and well being.
Beware of Job Scams at Stride Consulting
Even though we are hiring, if you have received a suspicious message via text, whatsapp, or email regarding a job opportunity at Stride Consulting it is likely fake. We have reported this to federal authorities. Unfortunately, scammers are attempting to take advantage of people looking for work https://lnkd.in/g4wKzRFf
Redefining Business Value for a Sustainable Future
These two @HarvardBiz articles place @StrideDev‘s vision and our approaching qualifying work in a larger context. We’re not being idealistic, we have a more sustainable definition of business value. And other people share it.
The Net Positive Manifesto
SOCIETY’S EXPECTATIONS OF business have changed more in the past two years than in the previous 20. For their own good, companies must play an active role in solving our biggest shared challenges. The economy won’t thrive unless people and the planet are thriving.
Creating Shared Value
Shared value could reshape capitalism and its relationship to society. It could also drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy as it opens managers’ eyes to immense human needs that must be met, large new markets to be served, and the internal costs of social deficits—as well as the competitive advantages available from addressing them.
Empowering Growth Through Inclusivity
Our #1 value prop for clients and Striders is Striders. Growth depends upon equitably and inclusively expanding the market of people who build software well and the positive impact they make. Our vision is to help create a brighter future for our planet and generations to come.
Bias in Facial Recognition Technology
“Studies have shown that facial recognition technology is biased against people of color” Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men. from The New York Times
The Challenge of Clear Communication
Once someone said to me with exasperation, “It is as hard for me to explain why and what I want as it is for you to make it.” Yes, it is. The quality of our shared learning reflects the quality of the result.
Adaptability in Leadership
If a leader can change as needed to build their business, they can hear criticism, respond respectfully, feel their feelings, and not lose their focus.
Embracing My Leadership Role
Despite 25 years of experience building software and living the experience of our customers, I am in so many ways the least qualified member of my executive leadership. What CEO wouldn’t be grateful to say that.
Addressing Inequity in Society
Had to add “inequity” to my personal spell check list in Google docs. So far from addressing it in our society that our systems don’t even recognize the word? It’s in the dictionary.
The Value of Crediting Influences
I reference sources when I explain what I’m doing. I found out that conveys a sense that I read a thing so I’m trying it. I want to credit influences and share learning but, seriously folks, a book represents one piece of what I’ve learned from over 30 years of professional life.