I drove home late last night (or early this morning – I’m never sure when one ends and the other begins) in sleet. The roads were really slick and you could see the ice pellets accumulating toward the side of the road where people hadn’t driven yet. Which of course got me thinking about business or, more specifically, the business climate today. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud
Sometimes things that go wrong in a business are hard to find. Sometimes we don’t even know they’ve gone wrong. It’s easy to spot the employee that disrupts a vibe of a department or the salesperson who isn’t producing. Other problems are much more insidious and require a deeper dive by management. The problem is that unless the business is under performing as a whole some managers are happy just to mosey on down the road. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, digital media, Helpful Hints, Reality checks
Over the weekend I did a bit of cooking, as usual. Some of it used recipes, some of it used the knowledge I’ve accumulated over a lot of years in the kitchen. While doing some of the prep work (mise, to you foodie types), my mind wandered and was thinking about..um…thinking! And I figured out that it’s the thinking that makes all the difference, both in the kitchen and at your desk. Continue reading
Filed under food, Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud
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