Automation, Intelligence and Purpose
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity. Doing the same thing over and over when the result is determinate is foolishness! Automation is creating a mechanism that...
Category: Process & Approach
Disguised unemployment
It amazes me to find just an unbelievable number of so-called professionals living in perpetuity, in the firm belief that what they are doing actually creates an impact in their respective organizations! Modern day...
Get started….
If you knew precisely where you are going in life, how you are going to get there, what you need to know to get there, who will have to be by your side at...
Value by comparison…
Where metrics don’t apply, it is hard to express value except by comparison! I like ‘X’ more than I like ‘Y’ or, this movie was not as bad as that other movie or, the...
Instruments of change
Why do you do it this way? The answer that you get invariably is “It has always been like that!”… Statuesque is rarely challenged and the longer something has been in place, the more...
Comfort in clumsiness….
A few years back, we had our centralized air conditioning system in the office repaired. The plumbing required some serious rework and the person repairing it ultimately managed to stuff the hanging pipes behind...
Do you need an upgrade?
Not getting the results you want? This could be addressed at so many levels; for now let’s stick to the business side of things. There could be 5 reasons: Bad planning Bad execution Incorrect...
Reinventing the wheel….
A few days back I had written an article about doing it right the first time. “You never have time to do it right the first time but you always find time to do...
Doing it right the first time…
It is amazing how so many of us know how to do it right but never find the time to do it right the first time… yet, we always seem to find time to...
Does what you are doing now count?
There are times when you are busy and times when you are productive. There are other times when you may be doing nothing or simply wasting your time. All of us go through this!...
