In a recent post, Item 9 called for a review of the application of Kaizen to recovery from mTBI. in the next post, such an application was dismissed due to the fact the mTBI victim lacks the ability to gain full process control. Absent such control, it is impossible to establish a baseline state that may be used to measure performance excursions. Without a defined baseline, any intervention is reduced to tinkering, a series of blind attempts to achieve positive change without an understanding of the drivers, or obstacles, to that positive change. This suggests Kaizen may have limited application in an intervention targeting mTBI victims.
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Category Archives: Self-Efficacy
Self Portrait at 300
What a ramble.
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Whaling on the Brain
A key aspect of brain injury derives from the fact each victim represents a unique persona, one with a highly developed personal understanding of the world. We each share some degree of common understanding – we all know the difference between whales and Wales. But ask people their first thought on hearing the word and some will say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, while others will start whaling and make a big splash in their drink, or ask you to call them Ishmael. The world is odd in that way. Brain injury makes it odder.
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