Posts Tagged "esoteric"

Is lack of clarity delaying implementation of your big strategic initiative?

Posted by Rick Knowlan on Feb 13, 2011

Popular mythology asserts that university professors are isolated from the real world and waste money on esoteric and irrelevant research. But that’s not what I saw in a recent planning session held at UC Davis in January. The session brought together scientists from 4 universities, 2 each from California and Canada. They met to begin planning what they hope will revolutionize the way offices are illuminated everywhere. They faced a daunting – and common – roadblock in implementation: creating a plan for something no one in the room had ever done before. In their case, achieving their...