The greatest potential of cloud gets utterly ignored
We should analyze “cloud plays” in terms of worker productivity and reduced costs around HQs. Continue Reading
Organization
Communication in the workplace: Let’s fix this
There are six tiers you can focus on, but sadly — most managers undermine all six tiers. Continue Reading
How to get organized at work
I’ve probably worked with 1,500 different people in various jobs I’ve had. I could count maybe 4 that ever spent a second thinking about how to get organized at work. The common way most people approach the concept of ‘how… Continue Reading
Get organized in 2015 with “speed elimination”
Driving to work this morning, my wife and I were talking about this cycle that seems to occur every year after the holidays. You hit the holidays with a lot of hope — there will be less e-mails and calls… Continue Reading
Jack Dorsey (from Twitter, Square) sent this e-mail in 2012 about authority and merit. People should take it as corporate gospel.
You may have seen this already — if not, here’s what happened. Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and is now running things at Square (that little thing on top of iPads that you can swipe your credit card through, for… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: in reality, does your job need to exist?
Are you doing something that really moves the org forward, or are you there to represent how fast the place is growing? Continue Reading
Could you apply blue ocean marketing/consumer-type strategies to the idea of leadership?
You might have heard of “blue ocean strategy.” It’s a very b-school term in some ways, but basically it means this: rather than going head-to-head with your competitors on everything, carve out “blue oceans” of untapped market space. It’s all documented… Continue Reading
I was a corps member, then I worked at, Teach for America. Here are a couple of pro/con thoughts.
Quickly before I get going: Justin Meli, in the video above (which has been put on The Atlantic and other places), was actually my roommate during Teach for America’s Summer Institute in Houston, TX back in summer 2003. (Moody Towers, y’all. I… Continue Reading