Creating an execution plan forces us to consider options and alternatives, weigh current information, and make decisions. Without perfect information, however, those decisions are an educated guess. Today, with fast moving markets, the information explosion, and people getting stretched thinner as “project resources”, priorities are in constant flux and plans that span beyond days are… Read More
My three-day vacation was somehow no vacation at all, except for one thing: my approach to work. I felt justified in being unavailable at times, didn’t answer every email immediately, shut off IM for blocks of time, and took time to reflect on longer term ideas that I’d been pushing aside for weeks. This is… Read More
Ah…if it were only that easy, everyone would be doing it! I was thinking back this morning to a meeting I had with a Senior Vice President in a (not-to-be-named) publishing company. This company’s very well known CEO told a group of his organizational leaders that he knew the answer to all their product innovation… Read More
A while back I stumbled on Michael Hyatt’s blog: From Where I Sit. Michael is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. Regardless of where you sit, two of his recent posts are “must reads” for any one! Creating WOW Product Experiences includes a list of ten common “WOW experience” attributes that he and his management… Read More
Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs and a senior editor at Forbes, gave one of the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes this morning. Dan was both hilarious and thought-provoking. So how does someone become the Fake Steve Jobs? Dan asked, but Forbes wouldn’t let him start a blog. Apparently Dan was “old media” and Forbes didn’t… Read More
Every “explanation” we offer for why the thing that was supposed to happen didn’t happen is an excuse. They’re not all bad. Sometimes they offer insights that benefit the recipient. Mostly, though, they don’t. This occurred to me as I wrote my first post after 10 days of silence. It was the longest I had… Read More
Communication, while the single most important contributor to the success of any change, is the hardest part to get right. Most people understand the mechanics of communication but we can miss some of the foundational concepts that make communication more successful. Communication is bi-directional. Even if we’re trying to “sell” an idea or a project,… Read More
Tuesday night was dinner and a movie (a pre-release screening of Juno) with John Dodds. John is a blogger so I get to tell you about it (although he won’t let me publish his picture – I asked). Wednesday morning Benjamin Ellis treated Liz and me to brilliant conversation and breakfast. All week I’ve met… Read More