Books

Is hungry and curious (reminds me of James Marcus Bach - scout obsessively) Loves diversity - finds it nurturing. Listens with humility Is confident (makes decisions) Is resilient (knows how to deal with failure) Is optimistic (reduces level of stress produced by complexity and raises performance. Remember Ike and Powell - perpetual optimism is a force multiplier!) Check out Tali Sharot's 2012 TED. Goes the extra mile. Smiles and has fun Design thinkers Are visionary and synthetic Are in love with people Are dialectical - can jump from one field to another smoothly Are elegant Are polyglots and storytellers Select and decide applying filters Are intuitive https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-qualities-innovator-7-characteristics-design-thinker-mauro-porcini

Okay, it's When Death Becomes Life - Notes from a Transplant surgeon. WIP! Thomas E. Starzl Willem Kolff, father of dialysis Alexis Carrel, father of transplant surgery, Nobel Prize in 1912 for pioneering techniques of vascular suturing Charles Lindbergh, aviator and co-inventor, with Alexis Carrel, of the perfusion pump (after his sister developed a fatal heart condition)

In 2001 the book was made freely available online in a series of webpages by the Geography Discipline Network, hosted by the University of Gloucestershire at http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/gibbs/index.htm The reflective learning cycle presented in the book models how learners can link theory and practice through engaging in a cyclical sequence of activities: describing, feeling, evaluating, analyzing, concluding and action planning. This model has been particularly influential in teacher development programmes and in professions allied to medicine. I found out about it from James Manktelow in 100 Ways to Be a Better Boss

https://www.governmentattic.org/vonK/WhereWeStand_VKarman_V2.pdf Towards New Horizons :  https://www.governmentattic.org/TowardNewHorizons.html From the NASA memoirs  http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/von-karman-theodore.pdf : He defined an aerodynamicist as a man who is willing to assume everything except responsibility, an expert as any engineer who lives 300 miles away from the home office, a practical engineer as one who perpetuates the errors of his predecessors, and a Hungarian as a man who goes into a revolving door behind you and comes out ahead of you.