Posts filed under: leadership
Health Care Providers Must Stop Wasting Patients’ Time
I read a thought provoking article from HBR last weekend and thought I would share it. It starts… In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare...
Wet Monkeys and a New Year
Soon many of us will be singing Robert Burns’ poem “Auld Land Syne”, and depending on the amount of alcohol consumed it may or may not sound similar to its Scottish origins. As this final post of 2016, a new...
Finding your focus in a big ocean of ideas
If you have not heard of EOS (Enterprise Operating System) , it is a set of operating tools and concepts aimed at helping businesses grow and operate efficiently. There are many consultants out there doing very similar things, but the...
Value creation checklist
It is pretty amazing some of the ideas we come up with here through the myriad of idea generating avenues we have – swimtank, hackathon, R&D, etc. Everyone truly wants to be part of solving great problems. Currently we are...
Avoiding the 2 X 4 to the face
A couple months ago I read a post by Seth Godin entitled “Duck!“. In it he talks about avoiding the 2X4 to the face. “You’re running it at it full speed, and in a moment, you’re going to slam into...
Development meets Soft Skills @ Kal X 2016
I attended the Kalamazoo X conference again this year. This is a small one day technology conference held in Kalamazoo, MI each year that covers soft skills and business acumen. For the price and quality of speakers I highly recommend people...
Improving Project Success
There was a timely editorial posted this morning on SQL Server Central by Steve Jones concerning Successful Projects. In his post he references Kevin Whitson’s The Kevin Test for Successful Projects, which was inspired by The Rands Test and Joel...
Project Pre-Kickoff Road-mapping and Scoping
In many cases we are asked to give a WAG for a project very early in the process. This typically includes the assumptions we made, and any known risks. As the project progresses it is usually necessary to spend some...
Using visual aids for actionable reflection
Without reflection there can be no learning. Reflection is the time when we look at what we have done, including actions and behaviors, and evaluate what worked or did not work for a situation. This could be as individuals, a...