Nature’s Top 10 List

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 [...]

Dangerous Dashboards

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 [...]

Risk Aversion and Lessons Learned

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 [...]

Be careful of what you measure

When I assumed the role of Director of Operations for a telecommunications company, the development team was wrapping up the initial construction of the networks for which I assumed responsibility. Accolades flowed for the team, as they had completed the network early with customers were signed ahead of schedule. As I was new to the [...]

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