How often do we use our nostalgia magic bag? It’s the one where we keep our memories and trusted well-worn tools, similar to Felix the Cat’s bag of tricks. Like Felix, when he gets in a fix, we face problems …
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This morning I was traveling. It was a long flight, but the flight crew made great time. In fact, the pilot announced that we would be in a half hour early, at the gate. Great news! I could feel those …
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We were having a discussion one night about agility. It started with the language of sports or war to develop metaphors for illustrating business parallels. Agility became my pet for that chat and endless ranting to come. I concluded that …
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Travel mess-ups happen. If you’ve been on the road for some time, you accumulate enough stories to play one-up-on you with fellow road warriors. My wackiest experience was when I and a customer were in Suriname (Dutch Guyana) and had …
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It was the summer of 1969, a hot, balmy Miami midsummer night, and I was between high school graduation and my first quarter at college. For me, the summer of 69 represented a big transition from the euphoria and fun …
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“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This quote is attributed to Mark Twain (and a few others, including Abraham Maslow). When I first heard the phrase, it was also quoted as a Japanese proverb and …
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Our last discussion was about the game “Gossip” and the calamities resembling the Tower of Babel and the language disconnects that impact our enterprises. In that initial article, I mentioned that we might need a Rosetta stone as a tool …
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Have you ever played Gossip, the party game? It’s simple, great fun, and revealing. In Gossip, the participants line up in a row or a circle and the first player is given a sentence, or better yet, a number of …
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Years ago, many years ago, I had the good fortune of learning how to approach performance improvement from several of the giants. It happened while I was part of a life-changing and game-changing journey at Florida Power and Light in …
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“You don’t have to be faster than the lion; you only have to be faster than the slowest guy.” –Zimbabwe saying Organizational vision statements are fascinating to read. They become even more interesting when we can read a large number …
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