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Defend – Protect your success in its current state.  In short, do what you did last time and do no harm. Extend – Modify and adapt your success. In short, sell similar offerings to similar customers. Transcend – Obsolete your best work before someone else does. All three elements can be important to a company’s […]

What does work look like when you prioritize your happiness? When it’s announced that open positions will not be backfilled to meet the practical realities of a recession, you reduce the scope of your projects and push out their completion dates to match the reduction in resources. And the impact on your career?  I don’t […]

When you spend time with a group in person, you get to know them in ways that can’t be known if you spend time with them using electronic means.  When meeting in person, you can tell when someone says something that’s difficult for them.  And you can also tell when that difficulty is fake.  When […]

When a car’s battery is low and doesn’t have enough energy to start the car, you change your expectations about travel plans, hook up the battery to a charger and give it the time it needs to charge.  You don’t keep trying to start the car because the already tired battery gets more tired.  You […]

With inflation on the rise and sales on the decline, the time to reduce costs is now. But before you can design out the cost you’ve got to know where it is.  And the best way to do that is to create a Pareto chart that defines product cost for each subassembly, with the highest […]

Our behavior is a result of causes and conditions. One thing paves the way for the next.  Elements of the first thing create a preferential path for the next thing. If someone gets praised for doing A, more people will do A, even when A is the wrong behavior.  If someone gets chastised for doing […]

Did you engage today with someone that needed your time and attention, though they didn’t ask? You had a choice to float above it all or recognize that your time and attention were needed.  And then you had a follow-on choice: to keep on truckin’ or engage.  If you recognized they needed your help, what […]

When times are stressful, it’s more difficult to be effective and skillful in our interactions with others.  Here are some thoughts that could help. Decide how you want to respond, and then respond accordingly. Before you respond, take a breath. Your response will be better. If you find yourself responding before giving yourself permission, stop […]

The pandemic has taken much from us, but we’re still here.  We have each other, and that’s something we can be thankful for. But going forward, what will you do? Will you worry about making the right choice, or will you be thankful you have a choice? Or maybe both? When things don’t go according […]

The members of the Trust Network have worked together for a long time. And over that time together they’ve developed trust-based relationships that are more powerful than almost anything in the universe. The Trust Network knows the work intimately and can do it in their sleep. They intuitively know the work should be started, the […]

If you know how to do it, it’s because you’ve done it before. You may feel comfortable with your knowledge, but you shouldn’t.  You should feel deeply uncomfortable with your comfort. You’re not trying hard enough, and your learning rate is zero. Seek out “don’t know.” If you don’t know how to do it, acknowledge […]