Actually, I’m re-gifting a valuable insight from former Intel CEO Andy Grove and, in reality, it’s more of a gift for you. In his book, High Output Management, Grove discusses at length Task Relevant Maturity. Understanding it well and applying it successfully can drastically improve outputs and can free you from the polar opposites of…
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What can you and I learn about ourselves and our organizations from a 20th century French writer? I have to admit, I’ve never read one of Anaïs Nin’s books – her genre isn’t my thing. But since the first time I read this quote many years ago, I’ve thought about it hundreds of times and…
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Commander’s Intent first appeared in the US Army Field Manual 100-5, Operations in 1982. However, it wasn’t original with them. It was borrowed from the Germans who developed it as they fought Napoleon during the French Revolution. The Germans called it Aftragstaktik. So, what does this 225 year-old methodology have to do with your organization…
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In my work as a business consultant and grad school adjunct professor, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve invoked Dan Pink’s three-point outline from his brilliant 2009 book, Drive. Employees want three things in their work life – Autonomy – the ability to control what they do, how they do it, when they…
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Sorry to bring this up, but in just a couple of months it will be tax time. Very soon the Finance folks will be talking with us about deductions, assets, 1099s and more. One of the conversations will likely involve depreciation. Depreciation is the mechanism that allows us to account for the portion of an…
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I love March Madness – three weekends of great college basketball filled with drama, athletic prowess, underdogs and Cinderellas. Between TV, radio, print and the web, each team’s journey through the NCAA tournament is chronicled hundreds of times. We learn about universities, individual athletes and coaches. Often times, these stories propel people into the national spotlight…
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It’s not good advice for safe motoring, but it is the name of two exceptional books about workplace performance. The books were written 10 years apart, but as I recently read both of them, almost back-to-back, I was struck by the complimentary messages. First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman was the end result…
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