Article Archive :: March

The leaders at the top of the chain have constraints such as time, energy, and day-to-day responsibilities. For innovation to occur, the leadership mindset should permeate all the ranks.

Leadership
Leading From Below
CEOs can't change companies on their own. The secret is to foster a leadership mentality throughout the ranks.
By JAMES KELLY and SCOTT NADLER


From WSJ:
Toyota University Opens
Admissions to Outsiders
Car Giant Preaches Its Mantra
Of Continuous Improvement
To Police, Military, Businesses
By MIKE SPECTOR and GINA CHON

The Challenge of Getting Truly Evidence-Based Medicine Defined:
The problem with evidence-based medicine is that you have to read the methods section. Given that becoming tenured is so very important and virtually impossible these days without publishing something, the temptation to fudge experiments are clearly high. Let's just say 5% of all the experiments are fudged. You have to account for that. It takes a few years for people to find out that something is awry with the published work, that's assuming that it will be found out at all. Some studies are so unimportant that no one wants to take the time to verify it. That's the trouble with the whole thing. Beyond that, a truly proficient mathematician who happens to be a statistician is necessary to do the analysis. Now, if in retrospect you found out that a certain experiment cannot be replicated, then you have to throw it out of the way you weigh things. This is something the statistician and programmer have to acknowledge when designing their methodology.