Leadership and the War of Art
Recently, an executive asked me to help develop a profile for recruiting new sales managers. The company currently uses a highly refined and successful selection process which hires results-oriented...
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5 Minutes with a Farmer
“We have declared war on work as a society…it is a civil war…a cold war.” – Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” Mike Rowe had it right when we said we are ”waging a war on...
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Change is Not Linear
In a 2009 TED talk on his theory of singularity, Ray Kurzweil used the example of the Human Genome Project (sequencing DNA) to explain the path and power of exponential growth. Started in 1990, HGP...
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The Problem with Most Visuals
After spending countless hours analyzing visual management boards in office and manufacturing environments, many fail to live up to the expectations we set for them and die a slow and painful death. Here...
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Jing
Recently while working on improving the master scheduling process at a community college, I was introduced to Jing. Jing is a simple program which allows you to record up to 5 minutes of video right from...
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Build In Order to Think
In his new book Change by Design, Tim Brown presents the idea that we should learn by making…or as he puts it, instead of thinking about what to build, we should “build in order to think.” The...
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Tribes
David Logan researches and writes on Tribal Leadership. Interesting topic and I think we have much to learn from his work when it comes to better understanding how groups of people naturally organize...
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Creating Global Design Principles @ Coca-Cola
Read a great article in Fast Company on the new design strategy David Butler (VP of Global Design) is implementing at Coke. Couple of key takeaways: 1. His goal has been to build a central design apparatus...
