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123: BOOK CLUB! Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persig

05:21 - Persig’s Two Paradigms: Classical and Romantic

11:50 - What is beautiful?

15:49 - Quality

33:44 - Emotional Motivation

41:13 - Balancing Objective and Subjective Measures of Quality

Reflections:

Janelle: A shared definition of quality and creating bridges.

Bryan: When you recognize you have two different categories of measures of quality, the team starts to need guardrails to push the group towards just a couple of agreed upon things.

John: Taking the different value systems, and fusing them together in some degree that can help unify groups into single directions and sets of values.

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