What does this have to do with Baldrige—besides being a point of interest on the NIST campus?

View As Web Page "The Newton Apple Tree is Dead" By Dawn Bailey Once during Baldrige examiner training on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), someone asked me where he could find the Newton Apple Tree. I was embarrassed to admit that I couldn't remember where on the NIST campus I had seen it. Fast forward to 2021, and I am sad to share that, in the words of my NIST colleague Richard Wilkinson, "The Newton apple tree is dead. . . . Sometime between 5 p.m. on Monday, June 7, and 12:45 p.m. on June 8, NIST's official Newton Apple Tree toppled over and died. This arboreal clone from the garden in which Isaac Newton saw an apple fall in 1666 has finally itself succumbed to gravity." Resilience What does this have to do with Baldrige—besides being a point of interest on the NIST campus? Well, NIST anticipated and prepared for the demise of this treasured tree. Years ago, it made several other clones of the Newton Apple Tree and planted them on campus. So, Newton lives on in Gaithersburg, MD. And this made me think of the glossary definition of resilience in the 2021-2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework. Read More Connect with us Received this email from a friend? Subscribe here. Privacy Policy Subscriber services: Manage Preferences  |  Unsubscribe  |  Help

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