It’s Friday, so let’s start with something food-related. As you can tell from the title, today it’s jelly beans. Generally, these little balls of fun show up around Easter and sit in a dish until they get stale or melt together into an amorphous, flavored ball. However, if you worked with me over the last 20 years, you’d have found something quite different – food and today’s business thought. Continue reading
No Manual
Sometimes stuff breaks. Sometimes something just behaves differently and you really are at a loss as to why. Much of the time in my house that was computer-related and the girls learned early on an acronym that became the first line of defense: RTFM. Read The Freaking Manual. Much of the time, that solved the problem, whether PC-, TV-, or car-related. It’s even easier to do that today since even though we lose manuals they’re almost always available on-line. It’s sort of the same in business except when it’s not. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, Thinking Aloud
Monkey Mind
We were talking the other morning on the golf course about settling our minds. One of the folks with whom I play will often stand over a shot for 20 seconds (I’m not exaggerating) before starting his swing. I asked him, as we rode around, what was going through his mind. He just grinned and shook his head and said “I don’t even know – it all comes so fast.”
I know exactly what he meant. My friends have, from time to time, called me “Sybil” on the golf course after the book and movie about a woman who has multiple personalities – she hears lots of different voices in her head. The reality is that both my playing partner and I have monkey minds and there’s the business lesson. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
