Everybody wants Innovation If there’s one theme that dominates Leadership writing, its the idea of having the courage to step into new territory, to try something new. If you’re not Innovative you’re not doing the right thing – and you’re definitely not cool. This positioning of Innovation as a “moral…
5. The Most Important Decision…
You’re driving down a crowded road at high speed. It’s dark, it’s wet, you don’t know the area and you’re looking for a hotel to stay for the night. Up ahead there’s a busy T-intersection and you have to make a choice: turn left or turn right. Straight ahead is…
4. Traffic Control
I was lucky to learn to drive in a place and time where heavy traffic was something you only saw on TV. My driving skills were honed going fast on open roads, or occasionally late at night on suburban streets, not grinding through heavy traffic. It was not until I…
3. Why DMAIC doesn’t work
Did you know that Organic Tomatoes are less good for you than non-Organic? The reason has nothing to do with the chemicals or whatever may or not be in different tomatoes, but with the fact that Organic Tomatoes are at least 40% more expensive than non-Organic. This causes demand to…
2. Houston, we have a problem
On April 13th 1970, as NASA’s Apollo 13 spacecraft sped towards the Moon, an explosion in an oxygen tank should have ended the flight and the lives of the crew. It didn’t end the flight, the astronauts survived & returned to earth because the “Problem” was solved. NASA succeeded in…
1. Magic Beans
In the fairytale about Jack and the Beanstalk, a poor farmer is made wealthy by acquiring some magical beans that take him to a place where gold eggs are laid by magic hens… of course he has to outwit evil giants along the way but in the end it was…
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I want to help people grow, so they can be successful making their organization successful. Work doesn’t have to be painful, if we just follow some simple principles. Those are what I will talk about here.