Tag Archives: Decision Making and Choices

I Have a Dream

By John Evelyn  |  November 16, 2009  |  Adversity,Capability,Leadership,Legacy,Tapestry of your life,Vision

When was the last time you dreamed? Not the go-to-sleep dream, but the dream that has a future that is really attractive, one we wanted to be part of? Is that dream still alive? In the universal words of kids in the back seat of the car, “Are we there yet?” Has the dream taken a detour, stuck in traffic, parked in the remote lot, or crushed in a junkyard, fodder for recycling? In this dream, were we the driver, passenger, or someone on the curb watching traffic go by?
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Where is That Report?

By John Evelyn  |  November 12, 2009  |  Blind Spots,Capability,Diagnosis,Fit for purpose,Leverage,Resources,Tailoring,Technology

To a small to large extent, most reports that are produced and delivered are late, early, inaccurate, or incomplete, with too much or too little at the time when needed to make decisions. Ouch, that sounds like a nasty indictment. But …
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What’s the Score?

By John Evelyn  |  November 10, 2009  |  Agility,Alignment,Blind Spots,Capability,Diagnosis,Rigidity,Risks,Transparency

Have you ever balanced a scorecard? What did you do? How did you decide what balanced meant? What did you do with the scorecard? Did you win? Was it a competitive win or was it a within the scorecard win? Would an outsider evaluate you as a winner without seeing your scorecard?
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Just in Case

By John Evelyn  |  November 2, 2009  |  Alignment,Blind Spots,Capability,Diagnosis,Fit for purpose,Obesity,Risks,Transparency

Just in case. When packing for a travel, what did we add to the bag as we said, “just in case?” Did we sufficient “in case” stuff that we paid extra weight fees for our baggage? When walking into the closet and seeing a wardrobe assortment spanning 6 years and 50 pounds ago, do we hesitate before reaching for something to put into the give-away bag saying, “maybe I’ll wear it keep it, just in case?” How about the files we keep in our desk drawer or in a section of our hard drives, just in case? Do any of the books on our shelf look brand new and unopened after a decade of taking up space, but we keep them, just in case? Are we saving five year old magazines for “when I have some time to reads them?”
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Throwing the Flag

By John Evelyn  |  October 26, 2009  |  Blind Spots,Capability,Competition,Diagnosis,Risks,Technology,Transparency,Winning

Those who follow sports know that the quality of officiating is receiving much needed and overdue attention. In fact, there is one officiating team in NCAA Football that is currently sitting on the bench for terrible calls in very important games. In fact, the poor officiating may have determined the winners and losers. Sports are a great place to talk about poor measurement because we’ve all seen it. With the advent of better technology and high definition instant replays some of the boo-boos are much more evident. Competent people in the business of evaluating performance of any type are very aware of the impacts of measurement and very skeptical of any decisions people make …. Measurement issues surround us …. I used the word competent intentionally because those that don’t pay serious attention to the quality of measurement and render opinions, advice, or recommendations on data or information are dangerous people to have on board
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On the Dock of the Bay

By John Evelyn  |  October 6, 2009  |  Alignment,Blind Spots,Books and Publications,Capability,Diagnosis,Fit for purpose,Legacy,Vision

Have you thought about how we make decisions? It’s fascinating and frightening. I believe decision making is by far our greatest Achilles Heel. In his book, “Fateful Choices,  Ten Decisions that Changed the World”, Ian Kershaw delivers a monumental and …
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Cool Beans!

By John Evelyn  |  September 29, 2009  |  Alignment,Capability,Customer Experience,Diagnosis,Execution,Leadership,Leverage,Resources,Rigidity,Technology,Vision

Today I experienced something some really cool healthcare! It left me contemplating that maybe we really do have the capacity to sort out the hurdles we face with the healthcare issue
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Fast Times with Heisenberg, Gretzky, and Carroll

By John Evelyn  |  September 23, 2009  |  Adversity,Agility,Capability,Competition,Execution,Fit for purpose,Lean,Operational Excellence,Rigidity,Six Sigma,Transparency

Ever hear of Werner Heisenberg? Unless you are one of those people (confessed addict here) that is curious about lots of stuff, in this case quantum mechanics, you may not really care.
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“How Aren’t You Doing?”

By John Evelyn  |  September 21, 2009  |  Alignment,Blind Spots,Capability,Competition,Diagnosis,Fit for purpose,Obesity,Rigidity,Risks,Tailoring,Transparency

How aren’t you doing? That’s right, how are you at what you’re not doing? Have you ever been asked that question? I hope so! How well do we choose what to do and what to measure?
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“Good, or Got Lucky?”

By John Evelyn  |  September 18, 2009  |  Agility,Blind Spots,Capability,Competition,Diagnosis,Execution,Fit for purpose,Legacy,Rigidity,Risks,Sustainability,Tapestry of your life,Winning

“To the victor belongs the spoils” is the famous quote by New York Senator William Learned Marcy (1786-1857), recited in the U. S. Senate, 25 January 1832. This one sure gets lots of traffic. It brings with it a lot of imagery of the uglier side of politics, graft and an all or nothing perspective. I can recall, as I read world history in high school, images of conquerors doing all the pillaging and other stuff. Certainly, the principle still has legs today, ugly legs at that.

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