I was talking with a coworker the other day and this person made an interesting observation. They pointed out that almost every strategic business problem that we come across is talked about in academia or in some business book somewhere, including tactics and approaches to address them. Essentially, how many truly unique and novel problems […]
One of my favorite books is Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Not only is it a fun science fiction novel, there are multiple leadership lessons I have learned from this book. Relying on your experienced people What is the only factor that can save you when the load is too heavy? Anyone?” (…) “Your leading sergeant, […]
I was looking out my front window the other day and my neighbor across the street is having a new retaining wall built in their garden, around a cluster of trees. It looks beautiful, and I was watching the workers carefully measure and cut the stones to follow these intricate custom curves around the boundary […]
I was doing some online reading and coming across several articles that talked about the skyrocketing prices of, well, everything nowadays. Now I don’t think that this is anything particularly new, prices have been going up since forever, but it did spin my brain off into an interesting chain of thought. Once upon a time, […]
So I was looking back at the blog post I did after my extended hiatus, and I realized that it is almost identical to the blog post I did the previous time I took an extended hiatus. This in itself is (to me at least) highly amusing, because I’ve literally written blog posts on writing […]
Wow, that was longer than I realized. When it comes to forming habits, they say (whoever “they” are) that it takes about a month of consistency to form a habit. If true, then the corollary is that it probably only takes about a month of NOT doing something to lose the habit (in reality it […]
I had a thought the other day when I was staring out the window, pondering. I was thinking about the shift of a technology from a developing phase to a ubiquitous phase. At what point does a technology or service just become a basic utility? This is showing my age a bit, but I remember […]
I have yet another new term I’ve started using lately. It’s called, Tightening the Vise. So what does it mean? If you know me by now, you know what I’m going to do. I’m going to tell a story! So once upon a time, there was a recurring business process in a medium-sized organization. Let’s […]
One time, a friend of mine was dealing with some significant health issues so they ended up traveling to receive treatment at one of the top healthcare providers in the country. After the experience was over, they shared a valuable sentiment; that it is incredibly easy and straightforward to receive care at this location because […]
As a leader in an organization, a concept you need to become familiar with is that of, “High quality, high velocity decisions.” Many, many decisions pass in front of me every day. As I read my emails, watch my text messages, and attend my meetings, there are either specific decisions asked of me, or opportunities […]
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