Trust often seems hard to come by in the business world. It requires you to put part of your success and future into others outside of your control. Trust is notoriously fickle in the slow to build, easy to break ways. But trust is the foundation of things getting done. If you don’t trust (at…
Sometimes the right answer is to do nothing.
I can’t count the number of practice building projects people try to get me involved with each year. Most start out with great intentions of making something run better, smoother and more profitably. The idea is clean and neat. Five years ago I was jumping at each of these chances to leave a mark for…
My ability to do basic mental math has been failing me recently.
This month alone I’ve been off by a full year on the following: how many years I’ve been blogging, how many years I’ve been with Newmark and how old I actually am. In each case I was high by 1 year. Let’s just say it certainly calls into question what kind of information I’m storing…
Two of my favorite productivity tools come together. #feedly #googlenow
I’ve used Feedly for my news consumption since Google Reader shut down in mid-2013. I’m in it multiple times a day following general news, my news alerts, Dropbox edits, and selected Twitter feeds. I get everything I need in one place – it’s so important to me that I’ve upgraded to a Pro account a…
5 things I am thinking about on this wonderful Friday.
Technology rarely causes a net reduction in problems – it just creates time for you to develop new problems. The closer you get to a problem, the less likely you are to solve it to your satisfaction. Don’t get too invested so you don’t dwell on the little things. “Momma knows best” really are words to live…
How deep into #design do you need to get?
One of the most common activities for delivery groups to go through is to design and choose some technology that they are going to be using for something. Sometimes teams get very specific with their design needs and sometimes they are very open to going with the “out of the box” functionality. The goal is…
This week in “Kids, get off my lawn!”…
I love LinkedIn. It’s a giant mashup of generations all trying to make their own particular use of this wonderful social media site. You have everyone from 18 year olds just now in college trying to figure out what this working world is like all the way to 70+ year old retirees who keep up…
The air has value – use it all to really use your space.
A post from one of the CRE blogs I read regularly from Allan Buchanan brings me back to my old industrial days: Cube! In the world of logistics a lot of time and energy goes into thinking about how to best use warehouse space. It all comes down to an optimization exercise of the following…
My mind is not built to follow only one path at a time.
I find that I am most productive when I have 2 or 3 projects at a time to work on. There’s something about being able to jump back and forth when the mood strikes that increases my productivity (it may only feel that way though as study after study shows this feeling to be false)….
It’s not about simply winning the battle in front of you, it’s about winning the future battles as well.
I was reading an article over at Sports Illustrated about Jay Glazer’s Gym and how he trains NFL players using MMA. It was supposed to be just some NFL off season story that I read and forgot about 5 minutes after reading it but it stuck with me. Days after reading it I was still…