Thoughts on Data, Culture, and Organizational Development
I wrote a post about creating clarity. You can read it here. In that, I referenced a story about a team member who was working to help solve a problem for another employee and how I redirected their efforts. I was practicing Continue reading “Letting Fires Burn”
The past few posts have been about the reality that at any given point in your organization there are 3-5 big questions that you need to have fast answers for and be able to make decisions against those answers. The other part of that is enabling the people around you, specifically those who report to you, to make decisions that align with you. You want them to know your Continue reading “Inspect what you Expect”
The other day, I was having a discussion with some friends about the golden circle. What’s that? It came out of the book Start With Why and it looks like this Continue reading “Your 3 big questions”
When I was younger
My parents would reward my brother and I by giving us money for grades. Would would get an amount for A’s and a smaller amount for B’s. The expectation was that we wouldn’t make C’s or lower so there were no rewards below B’s. What does this have to do with business? Continue reading “How do you know?”
The last several weeks I’ve been writing about my blank bible project. If you haven’t had the chance, feel free to go and read the First, Second, and Third posts. Below here you can see the final product. Continue reading “Bible Project – Part 4”
The last few weeks I’ve been writing about my blank bible project. You can read the first post here and the second post here.
Once everything was apart, it was time to build it all back up bigger and better. Continue reading “Bible Project – Part 3”
Last week I posted about the idea for my blank bible project. You can read that here.
First thing was to gather all my materials. Here’s a pic. Continue reading “Bible Project – Part 2”
There’s a phrase the you hear a lot. I’ll start it and you finish it. “You reap what you….”
OK, got the phrase? If not, just wait. I’ll come back to it later.
I was helping someone walk through conflict with another friend a few weeks ago. The hard part in communicating during conflict is Continue reading “Our Just Desserts”
We’ve been talking on Conversatio Morum about developing the ability to gauge how you’re doing, how your team is doing, and how effective you are at accomplishing your task. We’ve described this as a Check Yourself mentality. We’ve talked about several different ways to measure this, and why it’s important. You can see all the posts here. The final thing I want to discuss with this is the need to experiment. By this, I don’t mean, make uninformed decisions. What I mean is that there are always things to improve, things to tweak, better ways of doing things. Continue reading “Check Yourself – Part 5”