Mark Dunk’s Blog

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_gladwell

point:  http://tinyurl.com/7lat58

counterpoint:  http://tinyurl.com/958xce

• You wait for someone to tell you what to do rather than taking the initiative yourself
• You spend too much time talking about how things should be different
• You blame the context, surroundings, or other people for your current situation
• You choose not to speak the truth in love
• You are more concerned about being cool or accepted than doing the right thing
• You seek consensus, rather than casting vision for a preferable future
• You aren’t taking any significant risks
• You accept status quo as the way it’s always been and always will be
• You start protecting your reputation instead of opening yourself up to opposition
• You sleep a little too soundly
• You procrastinate to avoid making a tough call
• You talk to others about the problem rather than taking it to the person responsible
• You don’t feel like your butt is on the line for anything significant
• You think what you say doesn’t matter
• You ask for way too many opinions before taking action

Thanks to Dr. Lou Jander for providing this list via his weekly newsletter http://tinyurl.com/8yhtn2

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/12/30/space.spotlight/index.html

Report on Columbia Tragedy can be found here:  http://www.nasa.gov/news/reports/index.html

Rogers Commission Report on Challenger Disaster can be found here:  http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/51lcover.htm

An editorial (http://tinyurl.com/8ssojl) in the Monday, December 29, 2008 edition of The Houston Chronicle discusses this document.

http://s3-texasisd.s3.amazonaws.com/Public/common_ground.pdf

A professor’s wisdom about love, life, and hot chocolate.

http://tinyurl.com/846y58

http://tinyurl.com/3hvn8j

http://tinyurl.com/49b8jc