“It’s okay to talk to yourself. Just don’t tell yourself any lies.” Danny Evans, Carpenter Reality is complex. To understand and predict reality we build models, simplified versions of reality. Managers often confuse their model with reality. The model doesn’t care. When your model no longer works, build a new model. Since New Year’s, I’veRead… Read more »
Happy New Year! The purpose of education has changed. It’s past time to change the methods and results. For Socrates, a scroll could be read twenty times before crumbling. Read it each time to twenty students and you have squared the impact of the technology. Efficient. It was really expensive to read alone in theRead… Read more »
Definition – A Rainmaker creates a significant amount of new business. Anybody here ever seen or used this Internet thingie? How long have you had access to the internet? In the last 15 years, how have you adapted your work to take advantage of the internet? Why? Name a company that has really taken advantageRead… Read more »
I was watching a loser grinding to make a mark at a party. The more he tried, the worse he did. It was drunk and ugly. Suddenly I got it. To gain respect, you have to be respectable. Changed my relationship with the word. Previously respectable was nose in the air, Viennese middle class, notRead… Read more »
Most of these year-end posts are about what was learned. Increasingly, I find old ideas come back with more meaning. No matter how hard you do the wrong thing, it never quite works. Ted Long The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. William Gibson If we can’t beat a copycat at ourRead… Read more »
I was introduced to Phil Justus of the Rockville Science Center by a friend who is both a volunteer for RSC and a judge for the Washington Academy of Sciences Junior Academy. We are all in violent agreement, that the only reason to learn science is to do science, and the more science you do,Read… Read more »
I was in a meeting yesterday where I heard, “Well you’re the only one with skills to do that. The rest of us came up in corporate environments.” Lesson: The skills we develop are appropriate for our current environment. In Reamde, I remember two telling realizations. Zula, the refugee niece, understood that looking good byRead… Read more »
How To Profit From The Most Lucrative Market In The History Of The World! A Tale Of Two Resorts Orlando, Florida and Carolina’s Outer Banks (OBX) are two areas on the east coast where people go to enjoy the weather, vacation and be entertained. Orlando, with a major airport, Walt Disney, Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Legoland,Read… Read more »
Technology is the way we do things. Disruptive means we have changed. Here is a disruptive technology story, from planning for the new year. As a sales executive, I travel to client sites. For the Washington market, Alexandria Drafting Company (who Jack only knows as “ADC” from when he was piloting cement trucks) had aRead… Read more »
Once upon a time, there was an industry called management consulting…and it wasn’t about computers. There wasn’t an internet, so as a consultant, I was passed around a CEO grapevine. The users paid more attention to their grapevine, since it was their best source of necessary information. Major consulting firms came to a point whereRead… Read more »