You may have heard of a little app called Yo. This little app does one thing – it sends a message containing the word “Yo” to a contact. That’s it. Period. Yet this app is proving that the world is open to simple things. Why didn’t you build this app? Really. Think about that question….
How do you spend your unintentional days off?
Suffering from a pinched nerve (or something similar) in my shoulder this morning. Makes it hard to do a lot of work (this is being typed from a very strange body position that would cause many chuckles if observed). It gets me to thinking about all the things that I can do without technology. There’s…
Do you understand the risks and probabilities behind your #CRE recommendations?
There’s a phenomenal article up on Medium about the Italian Scientists on trial for failing to predict an earthquake (short version summary). Largely the article focuses on the fact that it is incredibly difficult to predict certain events with any degree of certainty. It’s even further complicated by the fact that language itself makes it hard…
Sometimes you have to take that thought and shove it down.
Sometimes there are things that must be said. That desperately need to come out to make the world a better place. The things that live in the dark that no one wants to bring back up because nothing good has ever come from them. Things that if brought back up would haunt. No matter how…
Meeting face to face versus regular communication. The trade offs.
Part of being Gen Y that I really enjoy is watching the generations that haven’t lived with Tech for the majority of their lives try to adapt to new ways of communicating. 15 years ago if you wanted to have a productive 2+ hour meeting it had to be done in person. You had to…
Does location really matter with most CRE decisions?
This subject may sound a little blasphemous at first but hear me out. If we don’t question core positions of the profession occasionally we are going to be surprised when someone else does. Theoretically location is a competitive advantage to a business. It establishes a base of operations for what they do for hiring, finding…
Structure doesn’t always achieve the goals desired. Often it is just a waste of time.
How often are you like this school in Indiana? They have a new policy in place where students must participate in an approved recess activity or get sent to the principal’s office. The rationale behind this policy is that the school wants students to be active during this time. Apparently the only way to ensure…
Taking responsibility is a tough thing to do.
Stepping up and owning “that’s on me” is one of the toughest but most important jobs in the business world. No one likes to fail and mistakes are stupid failures. But regardless it’s important to step up and own something. Delegating everything to others (including the responsibility of failure) is not a skill. It’s a…
Perspective matters in all decisions.
Your state of mind impacts the decisions you make. Anger causes aggression. Calm focuses on the future. When you make decisions do you take your state of mind into account when you revisit the decisions you have made? Stepping back to evaluate the way you make decisions will enable you to be a better decision…
Why Titles (and other organizational artifacts) eventually matter.
It only takes one to ruin a good thing. You can have the best hopes for a flat organization that doesn’t look at or care about titles but as soon as one person in an upper level position cares then titles take on real world significance. Call it the rule of one. The issue behind it…