Month: January 2016

  • Respect The Rough

    Respect The Rough

    When playing a dog-leg hole in golf (one that bends to the left or right), it’s pretty easy to believe that shooting over the trees and taking the shortest path to the hole will result in us winning. We tell ourselves, even if we end up short in the rough with the trees, many times…

  • Scarcity Trap

    Scarcity Trap

    Over a decade ago, a friend and I went to California for some training on a new way the program managers wanted to schedule our work.  During the training, the instructor asked, “Suppose you have 4 tasks that depend on one another B depends on A, C depends on B, and D depends on C.…