tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36126885763314124012011-04-21T17:17:08.661-07:00TechTalknoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612688576331412401.post-18843711495853612102009-01-19T13:28:00.000-08:002009-01-19T13:50:34.805-08:00I have a particularly good reason for my focus this year. We're about to have a baby, #7 for me, and #1 for Alex.<br /><br />I'm the stay-at-home electee, and I expect to find out a few things. One of the things I already know is that a home-based business is a necessity. Another thing I know is that a business, particularly a home-based business can totally wreck family life, and it needs to be constructed very carefully.<br /><br />I use the word "constructed" deliberately, as I happen to be ideologically positioned in the Inductive/Constructivist paradigm, and I'm about to engage in a demonstration of literally communicating a reality of my choosing into being.<br /><br />The place to start is to define what personal and family values are important, and make the business conform to them. Otherwise, the business will determine them for you, and that will not be a good thing.<br /><br />I am not a fan of duplication of effort, and the business world has invented what is probably the best system for controlling an enterprise, so in that we find common ground. My strategy is to make our values corporate values, and to do so, I will adopt the accounting approach by populating the Asset section of a balance sheet, the place where I will account for the value of what I am doing:<br /><br /><strong>Assets</strong><br />Family<br />Freedom<br />Reputation<br />Health<br />Education<br />Home<br />Other wealth<br />Time<br />Career<br />Recreation<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3612688576331412401-1884371149585361210?l=profcom-iic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TechTalknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612688576331412401.post-39200959209735117772009-01-19T13:02:00.000-08:002009-01-19T13:27:06.060-08:00It's already well into the New Year, and I'm only just getting organized. As I move into my studies in professional communications, it seemed to me that this might be as good a place as any to maintain a journal.<br /><br />The PCOM 560 course is off to a great beginning, and I like the narrative approach. I discovered Walter Fisher's <em>Narrative Paradigm </em>on p. 8 of the course text, and I like his "good reasons" approach to narrative fidelity. <br /><br />The logic good of reasons is set out in the book by asking two related sets of questions as follows:<br /><br /><strong>The Logic of Reasons</strong><br />1. Are the statements that claim to be factual in the narrative really factual?<br />2. Have any relevant facts been omitted from the narrative or distorted in its telling?<br />3. What are the patterns of reasoning that exist in the narrative?<br />4. How relevant are the arguments in the story to any decision the listener may make?<br />5. How well does the narrative address the important and significant issues of this case?<br /><br /><strong>The Logic of Good Reasons</strong><br />1. What are the implicit and explicit values contained in the narrative<br />2. Are the values appropriate to the decision that is relevant to the narrative?<br />3. What would be the effects of adhering to the values embedded in the narrative?<br />4. Are the values confirmed or validated in lived experience?<br />5. Are the values of the narrative the basis for ideal human conduct?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3612688576331412401-3920095920973511777?l=profcom-iic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TechTalknoreply@blogger.com0