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companies don't have ideas
It’s the easiest thing to do in the world: forget about the people part, think just about the product part. And why? Because people are …
its not the tool
The master owns his tools, he is not owned by them. The apprentice doesn’t quite get this yet, that’s why he’s still the apprentice. …
finding the truth
This image was inspired by Ray Dalio‘s famous principles. Ray is the guy who founded Bridgewater Associates, the company that put the ‘radical‘ in “Radical Transparency”. When …
the problem with facts
This image is another way of saying, “The problem with objectivity begins, once we start believing that the latter actually exists”. I like “the data” …
shaping learners
This was an image originally created for the remarkable Len Schlesinger, currently Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, when he was the …
sponge
I heard this line more than once during my first couple years in the advertising business, right out of college. I soon found out …
common understanding
If common understanding is such a good idea, then why doesn’t it happen more often inside companies? Short answer: Because it’s hard to attain. Really …
every battle
This a riff on Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War, the most famous book on military history ever written. The gist is, all other factors being equal, …
business is flow
Business, for the most part, is about making money. Sure, the business might have a “higher purpose” attached to it, but hey, serving that higher purpose …
anyone who's any good
Wow, what does that mean? Really, to be haunted by your potential? The sense that you can always do better, that whatever you are doing, …
accountability is a gift
I’m writing this from San Antonio, where the team and I are doing some culture work for our dear client, Rackspace. What does this have to …
real change
Now that “Culture” is the buzzword-of-the-year in management circles, it concerns me that leaders might start thinking Culture is something that can now be bought …
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