Engage your colleagues with the Collaborative Cycle to achieve more, together.
The Collaborative Cycle is a great way to work with your colleagues to make progress on a specific topic or area of your project. You…
Create more value with tiny bets in all areas of your work
Today, I want to share how valuable the principle of “tiny bets” can be for you. Tiny bets lead to a ton of learning and…
How to create or improve a company’s culture
“Hey Chris, I got a new job. AND I LOVE IT! My boss is really great, he is so nice and down to earth. They…
Create a local confab to get a sense of the zeitgeist
I just returned from Colorado. I was there for an annual small gathering of colleagues I’ve been going to for 25 years. It’s around 30…
Embrace collaboration over individual performance to scale your impact
The world still thinks it’s all about individual performance. Yet it is the triumph of groups of people that actually move the world forward. It’s…
Why loading your professional staff at 66% utilization gets more done
I previously wrote that one way to take care of employees was to load them at around 66% utilization. A number of you asked for…
5 Ways to Care for Your Employees
In September of 1970, Milton Friedman wrote the ironically titled, “The Social Responsibility of the Corporation.” In it he argued that the sole social purpose…
3 Ways to Be More Tangible in Your Work
So much of our work is lost in words. Conversations that go in circles. Emails quickly forgotten. The 27th bullet point in your presentation. Being…
How to uncover your team’s assumptions to open more avenues to exploration and innovation
I’m going to show you how to uncover the assumptions that underlie your team’s thinking on a project. Here’s why that’s important. Assumptions are thoughts…
Wonder why your amazing idea couldn’t work? Try this simple exercise to better understand the answer.
Startups and corporate projects aimed at innovating often ignore how things are currently done. They have a bigger idea Existing players just don’t get it…