Tag Archives: Charlie Pellerin
4-D Systems’ Assessment Dashboards (August 2011—Enhancements)
We constantly work to add features our (free) on-line assessment management dashboards. If you are currently a 4-D Dashboard user, you are now automatically a “Master Dashboard” user. We recently (old news) announced that Master Dashboard users can create “Internal” … Continue reading
Biggest Mistake You Can Make Managing an Assessment
WARNING: Failing to heed this warning and reduce or reorganize this assessment will likely diminish both you, and 4-D Systems, in the eyes of your clients. The biggest mistake you can make in setting up a Team Development Assessment (“TDA”) … Continue reading
Important Update on Assessment Dashboards
To: 4-D Network Providers I was recently working on a Learning Tool for the Assessment Dashboard that we provide free to 4-D Network Providers. (We have chosen to replace the term “Network Members” with “Network Providers.”) I found a number … Continue reading
4-D Network Provider Submissions
Good morning Charlie, I wanted to share my excitement with you. My husband, Joe, is a manager at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. Rocketdyne make the Space Shuttle Main Engine and other rocket engines and the company is going through tough times … Continue reading
4-D Network Provider Communication – Assessment Dashboard Simplification
I wrote in a recent blog about how societies (and organizations) tend to increase complexity when they have excess energy. Our small company, “4-D Systems,” is unfortunately no exception. I watch vigilantly for complexity-creep and remove this cancer as I … Continue reading
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Is NASA Team Benchmarking Valid for Commercial Teams?
This is an important inquiry. Our 15-minute, on-line, Team Development Assessments (TDAs) benchmark team’s performance against a database of 300 (mostly) NASA first team assessments. First, why do we only use 300 teams when we have more than twice that … Continue reading
Societal Complexity and Collapse
I only occasionally encounter a very new way of looking at something that interests me. As any who read my blog regularly know, I am interested in macroeconomics. I study this as an investor, and to learn what I can … Continue reading
Powerconnect and the Optical Society Presentations
I had two especially well received presentations (Download the Presentations in PowerPoint) during the past several days. The first was at a Powerconnect meeting in the Cisco facility in Palo Alto to Indian IT experts working in the US who … Continue reading
Why I Sold All My Stocks
Stocks (and fiat currencies) are “tertiary” forms of wealth with no value without primary and secondary wealth. Primary wealth is economically harvestable basic resources. Secondary wealth is product made from primary wealth, taken to markets and then sold. More importantly, … Continue reading
A Special Team Development Opportunity (No Kidding!)
Are you a member of, or working with a team that would like to experience the full 4-D Team Development Assessment (TDA) process? As a special promotion, we are providing select teams the following for free. A full Team Development … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Pellerin, How NASA Builds Teams, Managing Social Risk, NASAteambuildilng.com, Risk Mitigation, Team Benchmarking, Teambuilding
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How NASA Builds Teams 