Smart report?
Reports can be informative, insightful, and actionable. Some reports can be confusing, overly sophisticated and cluttered. When you have written your next report ask two people who are paid significantly less than you to tell you honestly if they understood it. No impressing the boss with a report she can't understand!
Owning a space
Owning a space is a combination of time, consistency and value. Our sandbox is too high and narrow for any one company to fall into- it happened on purpose. Now our reputation on the other hand, well that’s tested daily.
“We don’t own our reputation, we just own our actions. Our reputation is something our customers give to us in return for us exceeding their expectations.”
- Michael Dell
“We don’t own our reputation, we just own our actions. Our reputation is something our customers give to us in return for us exceeding their expectations.”
- Michael Dell
Thick
A report that's thick with information is usually thin on insight.Therefor, information can camouflage as much as it can illuminate.
Ideas don't come from existing facts, but from the holes we drill through them.
-John Hunt
Ideas don't come from existing facts, but from the holes we drill through them.
-John Hunt
Organizational Gravity
The movement of change, and the ideas that propel it are governed by "organizational gravity." While great and unique ideas rise up like helium, an opposing force is doing everything it can to pull them back to the ground. Not necessarily on purpose- it may simply be the culture that influences the counteraction.
Is it then our responsibility to use a Newton-like math formula for every project we have? Is part of the presentation the acknowledgment of gravity?
Is it then our responsibility to use a Newton-like math formula for every project we have? Is part of the presentation the acknowledgment of gravity?
Running in Water
"It should take that long, that's how long it's taken for the last 6 projects to get going. Of course were testing, running Gannt charts and "symmetry donut" testing. And yes, were paying special attention to how it was met last time- we will take an extra 4 weeks to insure it's ready."
Change never comes from the same process, it doesn't follow the status quo and it doesn't pay attention to timing. If it's been on the table for more than 12 months without success, significant change or at a minimum- a change in thinking... it's a failure. And not recognizing that simple fact? An even bigger failure.
Change never comes from the same process, it doesn't follow the status quo and it doesn't pay attention to timing. If it's been on the table for more than 12 months without success, significant change or at a minimum- a change in thinking... it's a failure. And not recognizing that simple fact? An even bigger failure.
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