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Two viewpoints

Somedays I think that there are essentially two ways of viewing the world… The first is from the point of view of narrowing your choices, eliminating ideas, and trying to whittle down your options to the point you have only got one choice. The second one, and a more productive one for me, is that […]

Guidelines…what guidelines?

One challenge that most organizations find themselves facing is how to make sure that everyone is on the same page with an initiative, an action, or some policy… One thing I learned in working with organizations all over the world is that most of the time, the simplest step is to systemize what you most […]

Your road

There is this fallacy that gets perpetrated from time to time that planning will slow your creativity or your intuition…that’s garbage. Even if your plan is only one line on the back of a napkin, you need to know what direction you are heading…even if you know you are planning on veering off the road […]

A new kind of artist

I love art: books, music, painting… And, I love artists: Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Michael Stipe, Picasso. Today, I want to propose a new class of artists….and they sometimes wear suits and ties and ride the subway…they are businesspeople like Seth Godin, Alan Weiss, and Peter Drucker. While we don’t look at business as an art, […]

What is a failure?

I think we all think about failure… Or, I can say that I do. What no one teaches us about failure, if they mention it at all, is that we are all failures at things…that’s how we learn. We don’t really learn from our successes, but we learn from the errors we make on the […]

What Have You Done Today?

How do you plan your day? That’s a fairly straight forward topic, right? But it often isn’t… I’ve been working off of note cards for years and will continue to. As our inboxes fill up more and more, it is more and more important that we focus on setting our agendas and planning to achieve […]

Data is more than metrics…

The big thing about Data, not little d data, is that we all envision it as the answer to our prayers and some box that we can open that will make the tough job of thinking something we need to do less of. In fact, Data is more than just metrics…it opens up a bigger […]