Author: mariofvicente

Quociente Q/D

De forma a melhor gerir o potencial humano nas organizações, e no contexto do meu trabalho na área da gestão, desenvolvi um indicador fundamental para avaliar as capacidades reais de uma equipa, departamento ou empresa. Trata-se do Quociente Q/D.

Este indicador divide o grau de qualificações de uma pessoa pelo seu grau de doutrinação. Pretende-se que o resultado seja superior a 1, o que se traduz na capacidade útil do conhecimento ou seja de implementar transformações adaptativas para a organização através da mobilização construtiva do conhecimento existente. Um resultado inferior ou igual a 1 é um mau diagnóstico porque significa que a mobilização do conhecimento é não apenas motivada por, como destinada a, preservar uma doutrina.

Esta ferramenta essencial de diagnóstico permite explicar porque é que perfis que são bons no papel podem ser absolutamente desastrosos para a organização. Explica ainda porque é que a moderna academia está a prejudicar as organizações, ao promover a doutrinação dos estudantes pelo menos tanto quanto as suas qualificações. Esta doutrinação nem sequer é política, é cientifica, e resulta ultimamente na incapacidade das pessoas de mobilizar as suas competências para mais do que aplicar a «sua ciência», para CRIAR ciência ou seja desenvolver o corpo de conhecimento existente.

Uma das vantagens deste indicador é que é extremamente fácil e prático de medir. Por exemplo, se quando questionado acerca do motivo pelo qual um colaborador desenvolve a sua abordagem a um problema, este responde com um equivalente ao racional «Porque sim.» ou «Porque fulano disse que era para ser assim.», o Quociente Q/D é objetivamente inferior a 1. Outro exemplo é que tipicamente os colaboradores que defendem uma visão da organização por castas, em que os deveres e direitos das pessoas são determinados não por um contrato social ou legal mas por atributos ou qualificações pessoais socialmente adquiridas, estes colaboradores não podem por definição ter um Quociente QD favorável.

Experimente já este novo indicador na sua organização e veja por si os resultados!

The limits of knowledge

Space & Time Cube Musem (Manila)

We need a framework to explain reality with.

A framework cannot explain anything more fundamental to it since that fundamental reality is the model’s assumption.

Therefore, the inductive replacement of a framework by something fundamental is unbound. Therefore, there is no possibility of ever achieving a complete understanding of reality.

That is, reality is forbidden to our knowledge.

The pyramid

I have built a pyramid from scratch.
Starting from the height of the blocks (0.5 cm) and the desired width of the base (7.5 cm) and height (5.5 cm) of the pyramid, I computed the width offset between layers and with it the 2D dimensions of the blocks in each layer.
I used 48 blocks with different dimensions stacked in 9 layers.

The calculations are as follows:
h’ divides h in as many parts as x’ divides x.
Therefore, h = k h’ and x = k x’ with k natural and equal to the number of blocks in height.
Therefore, x’ = x / k = x h’ / h.
In a pyramid, the base side will be L = 2x, so x’ = L h’ / (2 h).
The width of the n-th layer will be L(n) = L – 2 x’ n.

The dimensions of the block in each layer depend on the architecture which I chose to be such as to preserve the maximum number of blocks with their original standard dimension which is 2.5 x 2.5 cm. This architecture gives 3 types of blocks which are the standard one, the one with one dimension dependant on the layer and another one with both dimensions dependant on the layer.

I made the blocks with air dry clay and I used white cement and ocher yellow powder for the external cover.

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Violin meditation

An exercise in which I play in slow improvisation with my eyes closed.
A few mistakes are due to this.
The camera lost focus somewhere but the goal here is definitely not to focus on my image — you can take advantage of that fact 😉

Background image: Vintage Flowers by Walls Need Love (wallsneedlove.com).

Intelligent design

image: Stoneclinic.com

This post presents intelligent design as a resonance on the crystalline structure of the universe and follows the context of a previous article on the subject.

The concept of resonance allows to understand the crystalline structure of the universe, on one hand, and the idea of intelligent design in the universe on the other.

Firstly it is necessary to clarify that we do not have any conscious experience of time whatsoever. We only perceive time by comparing different moments. In this sense, we exist in a single moment in time, the so called “here and now”. Which is the same as saying that this is the way by which everything is presented to us, hence the common saying that reality is the here and now. But it is asserted that that is not a portrait of reality but instead our perspective of reality.

Now if something exists independently from the perception of its existence, then it has to exist in time, that is, it cannot by itself cease to exist. Due to the fact that our perception is time-less, from the PoV of this perception this impossibility of the (future) inexistence of something is a retroactive consequence in time. That is, it is a consequence of something that is established after its perception.

This is where we gain the perception of intelligent design, that is, the consciousness of future states of which the current state is a cause.

In reality there is no design a priori but the perception of a design.

This can be defined, from the perspective of the perception of something, as a resonance in time, that is, a constructive interference in at least one dimension of the universe (in this case, time).

This applies to something that exists at any moment in time, therefore what exists at some point in time has always existed and always will exist. This demonstrates the crystalline structure of the universe, since there is nothing that is left to add to the universe. Everything that exists is a resonance in a crystalline structure, that is, a complete and immutable structure.

The perception of the universe adds to the dimensions by which it is perceived at least one other dimension, that of the subject of perception. The subject can perceive himself, therefore the universe is perceived as infinite-dimensional. therefore, either the universe is a-dimensional or it is infinite-dimensional. What here is said regarding time applies to the perception of the universe in any N dimensions relative to the (N+1)-th dimension.

Another way of looking at this is the fact that the number of possible configurations of any system increases exponentially with the number of its constituent parts. Therefore, more complex systems are more likely than otherwise (this likelihood spawns from the resonance mentioned before). The law of entropy still holds, but at a subsystem level. At a super-system level it is superseeded.
This explains the order on the universe, and that the disorder is in reality an affirmation of the different (infinite though countable) possibilities of order.

All this does not mean that God does not exist but rather that, if it does, we are certainly a part of it. It is not an entity distinct from its creation. It is THE creation, both as an object and as an action.

Meditation as a form of creation

image: Answers in Genesis

Nothingness, since it cannot define itself, is a definition of the existence of something. This something is indeterminate, that is, this definition underlies everything that exists.

Therefore, defining nothingness is to create everything that exists. [1]

Meditation, as a form of defining nothingness, is a form of contemplating the creation, and a form of creation.

If it does not itself change reality, it allows to create a perception of reality.

From nothing… everything.

Refer also to this post.

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[1] this is isomorphic to the concept of inversion dealt with on previous posts