Comments on: Absence Blindness http://personalmba.com/absence-blindness/ Learn Essential Business Principles Without Mortgaging Your Life Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Adam Richardson http://personalmba.com/absence-blindness/#comment-354 Adam Richardson Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:39:22 +0000 http://personalmba.com/?p=507#comment-354 Good post. A lot of the reason why complex problems go unsolved is because often they have "invisible" elements to them, the current economic crisis included. In product development, the more prominent tangible elements tend to hog the spotlight at the expense of less visible, but mission-critical, elements. I wrote a post about this a couple of years ago that yours reminded me of :) http://www.richardsona.com/main/2006/11/15/why-designing-systems-is-difficult.html Good post. A lot of the reason why complex problems go unsolved is because often they have “invisible” elements to them, the current economic crisis included. In product development, the more prominent tangible elements tend to hog the spotlight at the expense of less visible, but mission-critical, elements.

I wrote a post about this a couple of years ago that yours reminded me of :)

http://www.richardsona.com/main/2006/11/15/why-designing-systems-is-difficult.html

]]> By: gergusha http://personalmba.com/absence-blindness/#comment-353 gergusha Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:10:35 +0000 http://personalmba.com/?p=507#comment-353 About "Prevention is under-appreciated": "Ariel" have running TV Ad with same topic - preventing the dirt to stick to cloths after they are washed with the product. And it is convincing, i think (and boring as all Ads of these products are :) So, may be the way of telling is important as much or even more as focus groups. Not working at P&G. About “Prevention is under-appreciated”: “Ariel” have running TV Ad with same topic – preventing the dirt to stick to cloths after they are washed with the product. And it is convincing, i think (and boring as all Ads of these products are :) So, may be the way of telling is important as much or even more as focus groups.

Not working at P&G.

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]]> By: Taiyo http://personalmba.com/absence-blindness/#comment-351 Taiyo Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:01:48 +0000 http://personalmba.com/?p=507#comment-351 This is so true. Managers fighting fires vs putting the "rocks" first (7 habits of highly effective people); rocks like prevention. I use checklists in my business and consulting work to monitor all kinds of different procedures. It is simply amazing how something monitored tends to not only get done better but new innovations and improvement usually come up as a result too. This is so true.
Managers fighting fires vs putting the “rocks” first (7 habits of highly effective people); rocks like prevention.

I use checklists in my business and consulting work to monitor all kinds of different procedures. It is simply amazing how something monitored tends to not only get done better but new innovations and improvement usually come up as a result too.

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