I’ve written a few posts on the importance of Visual/Spatial Thinking.

Do you think Spatially? A neglected skill is becoming a hot talent

Journal Entry by Dave Ohara on October 5, 2013

HBR has a post on Spatial Thinking. The Importance of Spatial Thinking Now by Kirk Goldsberry | 1:00 PM September 30, 2013 Comments (31) …

Problems with adding Supply Chain people, thinking like procurement instead of spatialintelligence

Journal Entry by Dave Ohara on August 4, 2013

How many of you are frustrated with your purchasing department? I had a short stint at Apple in the Purchasing group. The purchasing group had a staff of technical project managers who would work with the product development teams on peripherals for Apple products. During this time is when I got …

Are Spatial Skills one of the under valued skills of a data center engineer?

Journal Entry by Dave Ohara on October 9, 2012

Designing a data center is a skill that you don’t go to school for and learn from a book. Book learning works for math, science, english and of course reading. So, what kind of skill is needed to design a data center. One of the challenges is trade-off of getting things just right to reduce or eli …

I”ve watched Temple Grandin’s Ted Video.

But, it took the movie on Temple Grandin to understand Temple Grandin’s story and what she went through to develop her skills. Here is a behind the scenes movie that gives you some of the feelings behind the movie.