One of my core beliefs is that success, both individually and as a group, begins and ends with communication. Communication is more than just sending emails. It is fundamentally about understanding. If I tell someone to “get the paperwork completed,” I may have told them clearly to do something but it is not a guarantee…
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Are you stopping to take the time to cut through the noise that is preventing you from being successful?
One of the most important metrics I use to measure success on projects is highly subjective: Noise Ratio. Essentially, it comes down to how much yelling did we expect to happen went we rolled the solution out versus how much did we actually receive. If you hear less noise from leaders, managers, and employees than…
The conundrum of Impossibility. Sometimes just having the wrong mindset leads to the outcome.
Self-fulfilling prophecies are painful to deal with. Knowing that the wrong thing is going to happen and there is nothing you can do to stop it fills most of us with a sense of dread. Who in their right mind wants to know a bad thing is coming and there is nothing to prevent it?…