Open Up The Discussion
I want to add a few points to last week's post about the complicated versus complex article in Harvard Business review. The article distinguishes between a decision-making context that is complicated, versus one that is ...
Defining How We Will Work Together
In an article about making business alliances work in the November HBR, authors Hughes and Weiss suggest a small number of principles that should guide alliance building. The first suggests focusing less on defining the ...
Why Wait?
I was intrigued by a post on the Signals v. Noise blog today. Someone had asked them a question about how they resolved stalemates during their design process. Jason replied that they rarely have them because for most de ...
Is Amazon.com evil?
This may be a purely innocent misunderstanding, but I went on to Amazon.com today to try and order a book (that I am going to give away at my upcoming Great Ideas session). The book is several years old. When I searched ...
Good Article about Millennials
I found a nice article about the Millennial generation in the workforce from PC World Canada. It is merely one perspective on this generation (that is still defining itself, actually), but it seems balanced to me and doe ...
Complicated versus Complex
Okay, before November ends I want to point out the must-read article of the month in Harvard Business Review. It is by David Snowden and Mary Boone, titled "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making." The articl ...
Speed of Trust (2) and Generations
This is the second in a series of I don't know how many posts (here's the first) about Stephen M. R. Covey's The Speed of Trust book. So far, I've only read the part about the first "wave" of trust: self-trust. I made th ...
Speed of Trust (1)
I heard Stephen M.R. Covey speak about his book The Speed of Trust at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Chicago last summer. It's taken me forever to get to the book, but I'm starting to review it. Instead of doing one big book ...
Millennial Hype from 60 Minutes?
Looks like I'm not the only one who is annoyed with hype around generational issues. Matt at the Signals v. Noise blog talks about the horrible job that 60 Minutes did with a story about Millennials in the workplace. I d ...
Think Different
One of my favorite bloggers is Joe Raasch, of the Happy Burro blog. He recently "tagged" me as part of the Think Different challenge. I actually don’t know where it started, but it's an interesting challenge wh ...