Summary As an employee, proposing a change to the company boss can be terrifying. Knowing when the right opportunity to confront a problem in the workplace appears is just as scary. Those who challenge the status quo of the workplace risk their reputation and their jobs. Professor James R Detert…
The Economist Measuring wellness From data to insights – Summary and comments
Written by Christopher H Skinner. In 2014, The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in partnership with Humana to measure employee wellness as well as employer wellness program availability. 255 individuals in executive positions in US-based companies were polled as well as 630 US residents with full-time jobs by an…
Neil Peart and Clayton Christensen
Two of my long term heroes both died within days of each other. I plan to do an analysis of their writing styles to indicate any personality traits that they might share in common. Both Inspired me in my personal life and more so, in my business life. I would…
Product market fit and product design thinking is in trouble
There’s a lot of ways to define product-market fit success. The obvious success is sales followed by sales growth. Nothing looks better than having your product adopted by a lot of people. How you get there has a lot to do with product design but also the framework of design,…
Automation Analytics
I will dare not attempt to describe analytics or the wonderful work Gartner did in describing the analytics stack. Its been done very well by others. I see a lot of articles about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. One way to frame the two broad subject matters is…
MBTI quantifying revenue and profit
I no longer like to categorize revenue and profit according to Myers-Briggs. While mbti calculations are interesting they’re very hard to explain to people. What’s the difference between an isfp and intj? how you convert this for Marketing, sales, creative production and product design? The image below is real data…
Market orientation to Product orientation
This presentation is 4 years old but it highlights a few things that remain the same. Please use it carefully as some things might be a little bit dated Market orientation gets the right product: Product orientation get the product right An agile organization combines the progression of value with…
Harvard Business Review – Leaders as Decision Architects summary
This is a long summary of an article that caught my attention a few years ago. Sharing the summary here. We have the opportunity to alter the environment in which decisions are made to encourage better choices 5 Step Approach: Understand errors can occur Determine if behavioral issues are a…
Business. Digital. Marketing. Viability. Sustainability.
Imagine reading Ulysses, on fire, and in German. And it may still be easier to understand than some of the theories behind these terms. Are you by chance interested in knowing how to make a smart business dumb? How to ensure a successful company of thirty years dries up lickedy-split?…
Can you identify the next great technology?
The theory of disruptive innovation tells us that most disruptive technologies (and organizations) appear in the marketplace as rather crummy products. They don’t arrive as a PlayStation. They arrived as a one transistor hearing aid or as this image represents, a 5 transistor AM radio. They market these products not…