Professor Amy Edmondson at Harward Business School explains in three steps how to learn from failures, how to build an environment where people are encouraged to speech, to point out what does not work as it should - even if it's about a "minor" thing. She illustrates how lessons were learned at NASA, from the Columbia disaster on January 2003.

I love cars. I love sport cars. Particularly I love "Red" cars with the prancing horse on a yellow background... ;-) I love motor racing. I love all that since ... I don't even remember it. I just love it. But this video has changed my way of thinking about cars and driving cars. The message is very clear: why don't we start to accept - like we did it for airplanes - that nearly all accidents are happening because of human error? Why don't we start to think what does it means in terms of wastes, staying in the traffic jam for "x" hours per day?

Time-Lapse Auroras Over Norway Credit & Copyright: Terje Sørgjerd from the web Astronomy Pict of the day on March 28th 2011.

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

These are the posts I found more interesting, that have inspired me the most and that I’d like to share:

Technology has developed so fast in the last period, that the complete communication business has gone through a deep and irreversible transformation process. This change concerns commercial communication, global communication for big companies as well as information in the broader sense. The companies involved need to set up clear content management strategies so as to optimize all the content creation, sharing and multichannel distribution processes.

This is a selection of the best, most interesting posts I have read during the week:

Each day I spend a considerable amount of time reading the RSS feeds and in the last few weeks, I visited the following links with no particular order, I read the articles and I watched (twice) the videos. I'd like to share them with you because I found these contents extremely innovative and because they inspired me further and deeper reflections which I will post in the following days.

The rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. I do believe we are at the dawn of a new age and that as humans, we are living the same experience lived in the 16th century when Gutenberg invented how to print books: the rising of a new communication mean.

I have been invited to the 16th DIGITAL PRINTING FORUM which will take place in Milano on 23.02.2010. This is a great opportunity to talk about the future of our market, about the emerging trends and strategies to face the latest technology challenges. I will be also a fantastic opportunity to discuss directly with the public of professionals.

Successful applications of an effective Lean Six Sigma strategy share a very strong management support. In fact a Lean Six Sigma program does not happen accidentally, however, having said that just think about the following. There are two main opportunities when implementing an improvement program, could be very difficult: when times are bad and when times are good.