Many of us view processes as restrictive and burdensome, or even frustrating. I believe that restrictive, burdensome, and frustrating processes lack one fundamental thing – a defined agreement between oneself and all others that depend on that process. Make this one...
Achieving success in both personal and professional settings requires balancing efficiency and effectiveness. Discover the differences between the two and learn how to improve your efficiency and effectiveness for a successful life. Get insights and tips on the relationship between efficiency and effectiveness now.
Strategy is a loaded word that is poorly defined when used in a business context The term strategy dates back several millennia starting with Sun Tzu's, The Art of War, somewhere between the 5th and 3rd century B.C. (Anonymous, n.d.). Military minds have used strategy...
These past few years have been an interesting journey. There is so much I have learned with a good amount I have not gotten right. I guess that is what learning is, becoming aware there is a better way and figuring out that better way. I imagine it is like never...
Why is it that most digital transformations fail? Much is written about it. This piece by Mikhala Roy at Search CIO/TechTarget points to six reasons, https://searchcio.techtarget.com/tip/Top-6-reasons-why-digital-transformation-failures-happen From my experience in...
We all know the cliche that we should find our purpose and that what we are passionate about is our purpose. Is your work your purpose? I would say my work had become my identity. I identified who I am as what I "do" for a living. Self-help and spiritual author Wayne...
Welcome back. If you have yet to read Part I of this series of The Art of Problem Solving In Business, please head over to Part I. I can wait. I am here 24/7 waiting for you when you are ready. We are now picking up after we have completed the initial observation and...
Small business owners are problem solvers. The smaller the company the more problems solving the owner does. It is like hand-to-hand combat. It can take all the attention and energy to defend oneself from the perils of the owner's foe - the problem attacking them in...
Intended take away: New thinking around risk and the importance and value of working ON the business. There is an analogy that business owners seem to resonate with about how the pandemic has exposed risk in areas of the business that were not thought of before the...
