Harry Potter Meets TQM at GSFC

NASA GSFC Solicitation: Leadership Alchemy Program

“Leadership Alchemy adopts an ontological, holistic, and whole-person approach. It is a rigorous program that encompasses individual and team learning in the context of workshops, Learning Team meetings, mentoring, coaching, interviewing, and shadowing.” … “Products utilized by Bridges in Organizations, Inc. include, and are not limited to, Learning Guides, workshop handouts and materials, workshop posters, a Mentor-Protg Conversational Guide, and an Alchemist’s Toolkit.”

Editor’s note: WOW – Harry Potter would love this. Where can I get an “Alchemist’s Toolkit”? This sounds like one of those programs designed to give people a charge code so they can avoid going to meetings. I wonder what they mean by “shadowing”. Sounds kind of creepy – like stalking. What is the point of funding these things – I thought Mike Griffin was going to do away with all of this stuff since he does not practice it in his own management style (“with regard to feelings: I don’t do feelings. Just think of me as Spock.”).