Predictability In Execution
This phrase is the all encompassing answer to the sweet fructuation of years of learning and applying and the rationale behind the value attached to the highly valued commodity called ‘experience’.
The difference between a novice and a maestro lies in the predictability that the maestro exhibits in her actions, envisioning all possible scenarios and crystallizing a plan B for the undesirable ones. This coveted power of vision is a logical outcome of having ‘been there and done that’.
Interestingly the degree of predictability acquired varies for different individuals exposed to similar stimuli. Some of us just have the innate capability of re-application of learning procured via ‘dirtying our hands’ so that we don’t have to dirty them again.
The most striking example of the surfacing of this predictability in execution can be observed in the form of policies or laws formed by organizations for their employees or government for their citizens. The crafters of these guidelines of approved actions and behavior, like the Master Craftsman of all, have the mammoth task of looking into the future to comprehend all in the most holistic form of the word all, situations that can occur, and providing the course of action to be adopted for each situation. If we were to dissect the cranking and shafting going on inside their minds during the designing of these laws and policies, the most probable source for the solutions provided would be the huge database collected over the years through actually dealing with these situations or their cousins in real time.
As they call in the field of Knowledge Management, this ‘tacit’ knowledge slashes the ambiguity and delay in actions by those in front of the battle line in organizations and similar social systems, by a huge percentage through‘re-use’.
Richard Bach had written in one of his books that learning is finding out what you already know. The essence of the theory is that we all already know all there is to know; we just need to be reminded. Each experience that we go through, reflect upon and imbibe is that reminder. It is analogous to these millions of doors that are closed and hence blocking the light, but fortunately the opening of the door requires only a gentle shove of an honest learner, when we commit to do that the eruditeness of the light that fills our whole being takes us only one way- forward.
This phrase is the all encompassing answer to the sweet fructuation of years of learning and applying and the rationale behind the value attached to the highly valued commodity called ‘experience’.
The difference between a novice and a maestro lies in the predictability that the maestro exhibits in her actions, envisioning all possible scenarios and crystallizing a plan B for the undesirable ones. This coveted power of vision is a logical outcome of having ‘been there and done that’.
Interestingly the degree of predictability acquired varies for different individuals exposed to similar stimuli. Some of us just have the innate capability of re-application of learning procured via ‘dirtying our hands’ so that we don’t have to dirty them again.
The most striking example of the surfacing of this predictability in execution can be observed in the form of policies or laws formed by organizations for their employees or government for their citizens. The crafters of these guidelines of approved actions and behavior, like the Master Craftsman of all, have the mammoth task of looking into the future to comprehend all in the most holistic form of the word all, situations that can occur, and providing the course of action to be adopted for each situation. If we were to dissect the cranking and shafting going on inside their minds during the designing of these laws and policies, the most probable source for the solutions provided would be the huge database collected over the years through actually dealing with these situations or their cousins in real time.
As they call in the field of Knowledge Management, this ‘tacit’ knowledge slashes the ambiguity and delay in actions by those in front of the battle line in organizations and similar social systems, by a huge percentage through‘re-use’.
Richard Bach had written in one of his books that learning is finding out what you already know. The essence of the theory is that we all already know all there is to know; we just need to be reminded. Each experience that we go through, reflect upon and imbibe is that reminder. It is analogous to these millions of doors that are closed and hence blocking the light, but fortunately the opening of the door requires only a gentle shove of an honest learner, when we commit to do that the eruditeness of the light that fills our whole being takes us only one way- forward.
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