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Winning with a smaller army Applying lessons from battles past to your life Throughout history there are stories of great battles where a much smaller force has won out against all odds and triumphed over a much larger force. How is this possible? How can an army that is outnumbered 5 to 1, or 10 …
On Tactical Retreats We all have worked very hard over the years to get to where we are. When we run into challenges, like injuries or when we fall off the exercise or diet wagon…we despair. That’s really the best word for it; “Despair”. With a capital ‘D’. It’s hard to break out of a …
On OKR’s The trend of Objectives and Key Results in an organization I’m currently finishing up John Doerr’s book “Measure What Matters” and learning about the current OKR wave. What are OKR’s and what is the history? How are OKR’s different or the same as traditional organizational goal setting? What are the potential challenges or …
Thoughts on Asking for a Raise Or anything else Today we are going to talk through the process of what to do, and maybe what not to do, when you have to go talk to your boss about a raise. It is important to think through this because most people would just assume that all …
Urgency and economic cycles It has become trendy to use phrases like “especially in the current economy” for everything from marketing to whitepapers. This baffles me because aren’t we always in a ‘current economy’ of some sort? What they are most likely trying to do is to highjack some of the inherent urgency that macroeconomic …
