About Alex Zichettello (Profile on Laddice)

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Wednesday, Oct. 13 2021, 05:53:39 AM
Edited: Saturday, Sep. 28 2024, 08:44:52 AM
Biography
 

About this Document

  • If you want to learn more about Alex Zichettello, this document is the place to be.

  • This document was created and is maintained on a web platform known as Laddice which was designed and developed by Project AMPLE, an initiative to empower people to act purposefully, creatively and productively using the AMPLE principles.

Mini Bio

Seeking ways to connect humanities knowledge, skills, and passions to unlock our true collaborative potential as individual human beings.

About Alex

  • Alex Zichettello got his degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering and has spent 10 years working at Honda Research & Development beginning as a Automotive Exterior Design Engineer. He gained practical project management experience while leading a small team of engineers through the release of new vehicles from project inception into mass production.

  • Concurrently, Alex began working with his brother on Project AMPLE, an initiative to create personalized tools and processes needed to achieve challenging goals using the principles of AMPLE: aim, motivate, plan, learn and educate. Alex discovered his passion for Knowledge Management and began to apply it to his day-to-day work at Honda.

  • For the past 5 years, he has been leading KM and related operations initiatives for Honda engineers, now with projects spanning his 650+ person business unit and beyond. Alex is no longer working on vehicle developments, but his intimate knowledge of the product release process helps him to discover insights on how to strategically enact change in fast paced cultures.

  • Outside of Honda, Alex has a never ending passion to help others grow and he firmly believes knowledge management will lead the way.

  • Alex presented Habit Hacking for Manufacturing Success at KMWorld Connect 2021.

Contacting Alex

Honda, December 2024

  • Title: Development Solutions Principal Engineer | Knowledge Management Leader


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Personal profile (for process engine)

Document Purpose

  • The purpose of this document is to act as a “personal bible” that chronicles the important aspects of my life and helps to guide me each day and on into the future. Since this is a complex externalization of my thoughts, feelings, experiences, and knowledge, it better represents the true state of my beliefs than my feelings at any one given time, so keep this in mind when referring back to it. This is a live document and should be continuously improved upon as my life changes and I have new experiences

  • Review this document, at minimum, each 3 months and adjust/add anything I feel is needed. Keep track of updates in the “history” section at the end of this document. Reviewing this document will also provide guidance for when I’m not sure what I should do next or how to resolve any issues I might be facing. Use the items in this document to classify my goals elsewhere.

About Alex

  • Alex Zichettello got his degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering and has spent 10 years working at Honda Research & Development beginning as a Automotive Exterior Design Engineer. He gained practical project management experience while leading a small team of engineers through the release of new vehicles from project inception into mass production.

  • Concurrently, Alex began working with his brother on Project AMPLE, an initiative to create personalized tools and processes needed to achieve challenging goals using the principles of AMPLE: aim, motivate, plan, learn and educate. Alex discovered his passion for Knowledge Management and began to apply it to his day-to-day work at Honda.

  • For the past 5 years, he has been leading KM and related operations initiatives for Honda engineers, now with projects spanning his 650+ person business unit and beyond. Alex is no longer working on vehicle developments, but his intimate knowledge of the product release process helps him to discover insights on how to strategically enact change in fast paced cultures.

  • Outside of Honda, Alex has a never ending passion to help others grow and he firmly believes knowledge management will lead the way.

  • Alex presented Habit Hacking for Manufacturing Success at KMWorld Connect 2021.

Contacting Alex

My Personal Mission Statement

  • To explore and strive to reach the potentials of life. To be a leader of society who awakens the best in others, fosters good relationships and is a benefactor of good. To achieve a high state of individualism and freedom through courage, creativity and wisdom. To enjoy and live a healthy life.

My Personal Passion Statement

  • My life’s passion is to help people be happier in life through achieving a more complete understanding of themselves, empowering them to define and achieve success in life.

My Core Values

  1. Truth is more important to me than comfort or happiness

  2. People are more important to me than relationships, systems/processes, experiences or things

  3. Personal autonomy is more important to me than social approval [Self-direction]

    • It’s more important to be able to freely explore yourself than to be approved by society (internal over external)

  4. Fairness [Universalism]

    • The world and life are not fair, but I believe in working towards making it fair for all

  5. It is my duty to help improve the world [Achievement]

  6. See Our Values Planning @ Alex

My Core Beliefs

  1. True open-mindedness is the willingness to allow your perspectives to change, even if they are core beliefs

  2. People aren’t essentially good or bad but rather a result of the accumulation of mental choices (whether conscious or unconscious) and associations they made as responses to experiences throughout their life

    • These accrue in various ways including the lifestyle, relationships and habits formed

  3. A healthy mind is flexible and adaptable at all stages of life

    1. People are able to change their behaviors and beliefs

    2. The best motivation for change comes from within

  4. With education and practice, all people can use their thoughts and behaviors to counteract ill states of being

  5. The capability of the human mind can be enhanced by external tools including computational machines

  6. True love is the ability to overcome one’s own ego for the benefit of another

    • Maybe not right…love exists in degrees of how much a person feels they need to live for another person or thing. This is related to ego because the integration between two people involves a blurriness between those two people’s ego’s like the ego merging into one.

      • Need more consideration on this…

  7. People are influenced by the external environment whether they realize it or not

    • Human attention is being competed for by more people than ever and in more clever ways than ever before due to businesses competing using better and better understanding of consumer psychology and technology

  8. The human consciousness is easier to understand and work with when we recognize the division of parts within the self (see Internal Family System (IFS) Notes)

    • A person can be more or less in touch (and aware of) their parts and parts can be more or less aware of each other as well. The dissociative scale is a spectrum of how in touch the parts of a single person are to each other and the central self.

  9. Alex life log - December 2015 @ 12/14/2015: My brand of psycho-philosophy (&K)

  10. We should treat the beliefs of others the way we wish our beliefs to be treated: with seriousness and respect

Relevant Axioms

  1. Absolute individual freedom is impossible to be achieved collectively

    • Absolute freedom of one person necessarily takes the freedom away from another

    • Equality requires a balance of reduced freedoms across groups

  2. The horizon of understanding is bounded by the limits of perception; what lies beyond is often obscured by the veils of our senses

Relevant Paradigms

My Primary Passions

  • Psychology

  • Learning/understanding

  • Teaching/helping people

  • Creative problem solving

  • Improving knowledge sharing across society

  • Facilitating improved living and collaboration through organization

My Primary Interests

  • Philosophy

  • Neuroscience

  • Creating systems to improve and/or automate processes

  • Strategic thinking

  • Organization

  • Knowledge Management

  • Harnessing technology in positive ways

My Ideal World

  1. All people should live free of subjugation, exploitation, repression and segregation provided they don’t purposely take freedom away from others

  2. All people should be given the chance to learn and grow despite any mistakes they make

  3. All people should be honored and respected

  4. All people should have the opportunity to define their own values and purpose in life

  5. All people should have the opportunity to acquire equal and complete access to education of any kind

  6. All of nature should be respected including that which is living and not living (animals, plants, and the forces of nature)

My Ideal Character (Personal Virtues)

  1. Mindful → Awareness, open-mindedness, non-judgmental of self and others

    1. Patient

    2. Disciplined

    3. Balanced → concentrate on work-life balance

    4. Focused → study The Art of Learning and achieving flow through ultra-focus

    5. Humble → consider this more deeply

    6. Compassionate

  2. Honorable

    1. Responsible

    2. Accountable

    3. Reliable

  3. Courageous

    1. Confident → continue to develop this, don’t slip

    2. Honest → to speak my mind and acknowledge my feelings to others takes vulnerability and courage

  4. Resourceful → look for ways to improve

  5. Productive

  6. Creative

  7. Determined → don’t give up on my dreams

Life Priorities

  1. Personal Health (physical and mental)

  2. Relationships (partners and family)

  3. Societal Improvement (Project AMPLE & Honda)

Breakdown Of My Personal Mission Statement

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