Sagacious Think

From the July 2009 issue of FastCompany Magazine came Adam Werbach’s list of Nature’s 10 Simple Rules for Business.  I thought they were worth repeating.
From the emerging fields of biomechanics and biomimicry, scientists are decoding rules that businesses can apply so they become as hardy and long lasting as a forest.  Nature, after all, has [...]

A recent post by Seth Godin complaining (very insightfully) about dashboards got me thinking because so much of what I do involves helping clients understand their performance, and lot of times that means developing dashboards.  A typical scenario is that they want this tool to be the Mazerati of tracking, so they want every conceivable [...]

I came across this quick idea from Harvard Business School adapted from “Trouble Shoot Your Way to Recovery” by John Baldoni, and thought it very appropriate.  Too often we get caught up in coming up with an elaborate plan for resolution when what we really need is a simple, practical, methodical approach to resolve the [...]

I grew up in the Midwest, tornado country and we always had a plan, at school we trained by getting in the hall way, moving away from windows and making ourselves as small as possible.  At home we knew where the candles, and emergency supplies were kept and the safest room in the house.  Living [...]

Done correctly, business process reengineering gives your team or company energy by reducing the number of meetings, the volume of processes you team faces. These changes increase your team’s productivity, and could result in schedule or cost savings. Results like these are not to be sneezed at.
I caveat my statement because business [...]