Talking to Kids About Quality Improvement

Like many people, I carry home the smells of my job. My last stop each day for one employer was the bakery, so those days I smelled like cinnamon or cookies. I have also arrived at home smelling like peanut butter, onions, garlic and cooked fruit. All of these odors helped me describe to my daughter what I really did each day at work, as trying to explain to a child what quality control and assurance was really about was not on my list of things to attempt.

I never considered using M&Ms to explain quality to anyone before. Maybe it is because always eat them first and ask questions later.

This week, a look at how to talk with your kids about quality improvement.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." - Douglas Adams (English writer and dramatist, 1952 - 2001)

How to Talk With Your Kids About…Quality Improvement

Shape

The shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as color, content, and material composition.

Most shapes occurring in the physical world are complex. The shape of the Coca-Cola bottle...well, it doesn't defy traditional mathematical description, but it may require analysis by differential geometry to explain.

This week, a look at the shape of the Coke bottle.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "So Einstein was wrong when he said, 'God does not play dice.' Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen." - Stephen William Hawking, (British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, 1942 - )

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