When I was a newer driver, I found there was a specific situation that was creating a lot of stress and anxiety for me. This is whenever I was in line, in a car, at a stop sign to turn right. Now in a situation like this, you look to the left (in the United […]
Something I’ve started to hear more and more lately is “just use common sense in your decision making”. Well, the problem is, you’d be surprised at how much gap there is between different people’s definition of common sense. So here’s an example. I spilled some juice on the counter the other day and I went […]
Following up on this post. I was discussing this post with someone who was giving me feedback, and their comment was, “well yeah nothing happened, but that’s because the consequences weren’t big enough. What if the driver had been seriously injured?” So I thought about that while I was writing the post, as in, what […]
Business leadership hinges on effective decision making. Colonel John Boyd, a renowned military fighter pilot, developed the OODA loop after studying this critical skill through the lens of aerial combat. Boyd determined that superior decisions follow a cycle of four steps: Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act—a framework now widely applied beyond military contexts. Plenty has […]
I realized I have even more to say about this allegorical post. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., famously said one time, “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’,” While I understand the competitive spirit he has that drives that line of thinking, it really got me thinking about my allegory about where the lines are, when you […]
I had some followon thoughts to my last post. I wanted to tie this back from just being a “fun motivational observation” to something more actionable for business leaders. So let’s say you’re in this position, where your portfolio is a plethora of projects or projects, each just a single grain of sand but the […]
I remember one time watching an anthill, all those ants digging and digging. One thing that struck me even as a kid was how each individual ant only would bring up one grain of sand. How does one grain of sand make any sort of difference? And yet, when combined with all the other ants, […]
A follow up on this post. A year had passed. All was going well. Everything seemed great! Until… There was a minor accident. A delivery truck got into a fender bender with another car, and without a seat belt the driver was slightly injured. The driver was, naturally, not happy, and threatened legal action against […]
How many times have you bought some newfangled cool product thinking, “I’ll use this all the time!” Only to find that actually…you never really use it. The quintessential example is, of course, the exercise bike. But there’s other examples too, such as kayaks or bread makers or hot tubs. But sometimes, it “sticks”, and you […]
Once upon a time, an analyst was working with a team on a business problem. The team was tasked with improving the delivery velocity for drivers in vans dropping off packages. The goal was to improve quality with faster average delivery times, thus resulting in more packages delivered per driver per day. The measurement for […]
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