Your part in making a better LEGO brick
This is my speaking script (w. slides interspersed) from a lightning talk at our company kickoff this year. It worked out mostly ok - humour tends to save the day. Replace the SportsEngine/SE references with your own company name/acronym and hey presto, relevant content. In hindsight, it was far too large a topic to capture in a five-minute talk, but it was still fun to put together. Previous years' talk scripts are here and here . Let’s quickly illustrate an idea, and a tool with which to pursue our new idea. A concept that has bothered me quite a bit over the last several years is, ‘the value of individual contribution’. So, let’s investigate the mental trainwreck that occurs when I write things down. The scope of this talk is just a single facet of the ever-present problem: “human beings working together”. Who are we? What is SportsEngine? What is SportsEngine made up of? What if we saw SportsEngine not just as ...