Comments on: Aspiration trumps trepidation https://blog.learnlets.com/2014/08/aspiration-trumps-trepidation/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2014/08/aspiration-trumps-trepidation/#comment-774557 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:59:11 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=3986#comment-774557 In reply to Dave Ferguson.

Dave, well, yeah, your aspirations have to be authentic. However, it’s not always about the new system (which, properly chosen, should fulfill new aspirations), but can also be personal improvement, too.

]]> By: Dave Ferguson https://blog.learnlets.com/2014/08/aspiration-trumps-trepidation/#comment-773637 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:45:42 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=3986#comment-773637 I’m all for targeting aspiration, I think, but I have more than once seen a technocrat or two preaching to the proles about the reasons for the wondrous new [ inventory / personnel / manufacturing / learning-management ] system. It’s a combination of cognitive bias (he or she just loves this stuff and enjoys making it tap dance, mistaking features for benefits, and what Bob Mager called “they really oughta wanna.”

Take your average ERP software implementation. Whatever benefits show up in the first year are almost always limited to some corporate goal. SAP, Oracle, WhateverWare in this context do not make life better for the people who have to keep the gears working. Often they make it worse in the short run–their productivity takes a nosedive, the formal training was inadequate, the informal training is packaged in frustration and desperation.

No amount of aspiration is going to make that better, despite what the guy who sold you this stuff says.

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