I was reading an article over at Medium about 6 Tips for Innovation and the very first tip on the list is “Making Innovating Everyone’s Job.” Sounds great in business articles but in practice it belongs in the same pile as “The Customer is Always Right” or “There are No Stupid Questions.” Just wrong. Too often…
Less is more when trying to describe what you do in a sales deck or proposal.
The longer that all of us do something, the better we become at discussing the details. Once we’ve done it often enough we have a strong grasp of the nuances and details. This grasp gives us the ability to really delve deeply into a topic. But most people don’t have the same grasp. When they…
Glamorizing the future while neglecting the present is a sure way to not reach your goals.
This time of year is one for making resolutions on how we are going to change in the coming year. We seek to improve ourselves and what we do. The goal is improvement over the past. But the past is fickle. We remember the good and bad while forgetting the 80% of everything else. We…
Is the time of traditional Cable near an end?
An article over at GigaOM just got me really excited: Dish’s new Sling TV service liberates ESPN from the cable bundle. (This deal also includes many Turner and Disney channels for $20/mo.) Add this to the news that HBO may offer their service separately from cable providers. (Likely at $15 to $20/mo.) Take those and…
A New Year. How will CRE move forward in 2015?
I’m fascinated by CRE fundamentals for 2015. This is a year that could begin to see the tipping point for a number of trends. CRE moves too slowly for anything to really take firm root but the potential is all there.
What is longevity at a company today?
Today I hit 8 years with NGKF. As a member of Gen Y this fact shocks many that I come across (and often myself). They either think I’m older than I am or they don’t believe that I’ve been here as long as I have. I’ve had many hats and imagine that I’ll wear many more…
Relative importance of items is an important feature in creating frameworks.
We are in the process of looking at our existing web presence and one of the first steps is the development of what’s called a microsite but is really just a site map. I’ve been really struggling with this as it seems to be missing the essence of what and who we are. It dawned…
Success requires failure. Living requires mistakes.
A friend on LinkedIn recently posted about how people shouldn’t beat themselves up too much after making mistakes. Most things can be corrected and those things that cannot be corrected can be moved past. It’s an important reminder to all of us (especially around this time of year). You can’t have success without failure. You…
Just finished binge-listening Serial. Here’s my thoughts.
If you haven’t indulged in this particular cultural phenomenon I encourage you to check it out. If the first episode doesn’t grab you and make you want more then drop it. But most keep going. I listened to all twelve episodes in two days and it is quite the fascinating program. Not sure how I…
Time to refresh the Maker versus Manager schedule thinking.
Every so often it is important to dust off the idea of personal scheduling throughout the day. I owe many thanks to the article “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” by Paul Graham. It has been influencing my thinking for awhile. But the time has come to remind myself that it is impossible to build or write…