Losing the Outcome to Operations
Operations keep you busy, they give you a reason to come to work, to fight, to talk, to show progress, to be excited! Operations are very tangible. You can prove your process expertise, others’...
Monthly Archive: January 2018
The one choice that you must make
There is never a right decision or a wrong decision. It is about making a decision quickly and proving it out quickly. If it takes you closer to your goal, it is then about...
Decisive and productive or trying to please?
“To be or not to be”… The tragedy of Hamlet was for his indecisiveness. A worse problem is an inability to commit definitively, despite having an opinion; lest you hurt the other person or...
You may not want it
Everyone likes the idea of being in great shape. If you want it, you will find the motivation to wake up early every morning to hit the gym. Everyone likes the idea of being...
Working backwards
You get to draw the graph before you have the data on two occasions: When you know the results to expect in your science experiment When you dream up your big vision and draw...
Incentive, disincentive or the right thing
A pet dog gets a goodie for behaving. A kid gets a gift for scoring well in an exam or a timeout for monkeying around. Would we not expect better from an adult? What’s...
Rules of the game
Two plus two divided by two: The answer could be 2 or 3 based on how rules are applied. You cannot assume the rules of the game. They differ from time to time and...
How not to get credit for your work
There may be many ways to get credit for what you do: Working hard, producing results every time, doing what you say, being honest…. Do all that and talk about how wonderful you are;...
The trouble makers
It’s the trouble makers that get the most attention. It’s the trouble makers that cause us to decide in ways we really don’t care to. Deceive ourselves all we may want to; we cannot...
It is about what is important
The other stuff is unnecessary; it belongs in the trash can. Too much energy can be spent on unimportant things. Whether it is because you cannot distinguish the important from the unimportant or because...
