Month: November 2010
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Standing On The Shoulders Of Those Who Came Before
As I was walking to catch the bus, it struck me just how much that surrounds us we take for granted. Things that seem so obvious too us they simply blend into the background. We get in our cars, drive on paved roads, stop at stoplights, and know that if we got in an accident…
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Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity
Our organization was overwhelmed with managing changes. We had just made a major product shift and small changes that before had no effect now rippled through the system costing many man hours to manage; many even slipped through the cracks. A friend and I set out to try to understand how the organization was responding…
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Irrefutable Communication
You are in a conversation with your friend, and he says, “Good friends make personal sacrifices for their friends”. Is he talking about you? You begin to wonder, but you can’t just say to him, “I DO make personal sacrifices”. Maybe he wasn’t talking about you. There is no way to refute or address the…
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Consumed by Abundance
Everyday we go toe-to-toe with information overload. Never has so much information been available right at our finger tips. But it isn’t just too much information, it’s too much of a lot of things: food, free time, and entertainment to name a few. Previously, we consumed scarce goods, now we are consumed by abundance. It’s…