Misc

Question 1

Biological conditions of life

Answer 1

Health
Activity
Knowing

Question 2

Linguistic Conditions of Life

Answer 2

Relationship 
Career
Money
Sociality
Ethics 
Education

Question 3

Transactional conditions of life

Answer 3

Fitness 
Aesthetics 
Environment 
Politics 
Legacy 
Spirituality/self-actualization

Question 4

Transaction

Answer 4

A state of no concern for satisfaction of conditions because all conditions are satisfied.

Phillips: a reciprocal relation between that which acts and that which is acted upon. … both are reciprocally transformed.

Question 5

Conditions of Life

Answer 5

The inescapable and unavoidable conditions, situations or circumstances that adults must tend to in order to live a happy life.

Question 6

Biological

Answer 6

We are first and always our biology, which at its most fundamental is essentially a movable body with a brain protected and informed by a central nervous system.

Question 7

Lunguistic

Answer 7

Human beings are subjective creatures with the ability to reason and communicate through language. Language gives us access to value, perception, meaning, et al.

Question 8

Transactional

Answer 8

Human beings are goal-seeking, tool-making, social animals who’s survival depends on collaboration, exchange, and specialization.

We are transactional, which at its core means we must co-exist to survive.

Question 9

Activity

Answer 9

The Labor, Work, and Action of life.

What we do with our mind and our body to take care of and cause our lives.

Kirkland: Activity represents the all-encompassing movement/dynamic of a creature engaging in the environment on this planet.

Webinar slide: For the Biological Condition of Life, a critter must be active. We live in a democracy of critters, in an active, constant negotiation of events. We must move to live.

Question 10

Work

Answer 10

To produce something, when we’re actually creating something, usually with a set of tools

(Said by Kirkland during a webinar)

Question 11

Action

Answer 11

The coordination of activity, mostly with other human beings

Question 12

Labor

Answer 12

Maintenance.

Hannah Arendt says it’s life itself.

Question 13

Planning includes three specific areas of study and practice

Answer 13

Inquiry, inventory, and invention (insights and innovation.)

Question 14

Facts

Answer 14

Judgments, assessments, and assertions about what has happened and is happening

Question 15

The plan

Answer 15

The articulation of the general course of action required to satisfy an aim

Question 16

Three primary types of resources

Answer 16

Tangible, intangible, and human

Question 17

Tangible resources include

Answer 17

physical assets and financial resources

Question 18

Intangible resources include

Answer 18

brand, business and personal reputation(s), goodwill, culture, etc.

Question 19

Human resources include

Answer 19

the competencies, specialized knowledge, and skill of those committed to the enterprise or specific transactions.

Question 20

We characterize a strategy as …

Answer 20

a method, approach, or design for achieving specific results. It is a set or category of acts (transactions) that are crafted to guide the effective and efficient deployment of limited resources.

Question 21

Value Discipline (my interpretation)

Answer 21

the area where we allocate the majority of our resources to create a differentiated, focused, and valuable competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Question 22

Product leadership (my interpretation)

Answer 22

Best product, differentiated value

Allocate resources to people and R&D

Question 23

Operational excellence (my interpretation)

Answer 23

Best cost

Allocate resources toward standardization and efficiency

Question 24

Customer intimacy (my interpretation)

Answer 24

Best total solution, tailored to customer’s needs

Allocate resources toward relationships with customers