But either way I can’t express how proud I am of what he’s putting himself through because of what he wants to do. It’s not for everyone but for those that it is for it is an amazing calling.
Humor is a key ingredient to successful work.
I love Richard Branson’s posts over at LinkedIn. He offers more insight than I expected to get and he does it in a very relatable way. The one I most recently noticed was one involving quite a bit of humor (some may even call it off color?). Too often the issues and problems we are…
Simplicity is Art is Accessibility.
A complicated solution and explanation to a problem will always be less than a simple solution and explanation. Complexity is the heart of uncertainty and fear. When people cannot understand what they are signing up for they will often freeze. No one in a state of frozen fear will sign-off on moving forward. Simplicity does…
Want to scale what you do? Make sure you do these 7 things.
Scaling a solution is the key to long term efficiency (and therefore profitability). To do scale right you have to address these 7 items at a minimum. Productization. Step 1 is to treat everything you do like a product. Do you negotiate leases for a living? Stop treating each as a stand-alone project that needs to…
3 simple rules for designing tools that work.
1. Convenience before all else. If you make it hard on people they are not as likely to jump on board. 2. Simplicity in all aspects. Simple to use doesn’t mean that you are solving a simple problem. It just means you’ve thought about how it’s actually going to be used. 3. Only through failure will…
True statement of the day – ‘Only the paranoid survive.’
I read the MMQB with Peter King every Monday during football season. It’s something where I find an interesting mix of reporting, forecasting, off-topic-but-not-really factoids and other stuff. Today’s issue brought the quote that you see in the headline: Only the paranoid survive. This is one of those off-topic-but-not-really factoids. It came during an interview…
Is Facebook@Work the tool that finally fixes enterprise collaboration?
As you’ve seen, I’m big on culture. The best way to create a dynamic and successful organizational culture is to encourage free collaboration among employees. To date there have been a number of tools that have attempted this (email, Lync, Slack, etc) but none have really caught on. Facebook is introducing their Facebook@Work program that…
Demographics matter when making our location decisions.
The demographic make-up of your employees is driven primarily by two factors: Your corporate culture and how that influences people to apply for jobs. The demographics around where your offices are located. Corporate HR and Management has a strong influence on the first, corporate Real Estate has a strong influence on the second. Who would…
Bad metrics and posts citing poor economic theory.
Typically the type of post I saw over at Harvard Business Review is something most seen during the March Madness basketball tournament. Everyone has seen the type: some event is costing businesses and the economy Billions of dollars due to lost productivity. Yet somehow the world always moves on and there are no significant economic…
NYC Residential costs visualization #medium
I love visualizations. I also love geographic data displayed in nuanced, yet clear, ways. This post at Medium about NYC Residential Costs really made my day.