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Last week I wrote about not buying people’s time. If you’re not buying time, you have to know what you are buying. This is harder than buying time, so we buy time as a cop out. It’s hard for two reasons.
One is we often don’t know how to explain what we want but “we know […]

Robert Scobel put up a post about how to reinvent Microsoft. If any company needs it they must be in the top three, along with GM and … maybe your company?
I’ve distilled his ideas into suggestions that will work for any company of any size. Scobel’s post will give you some context and explanation. For […]

Systems that support, not hinder what people do, and allow them to do it better. Most of us don’t think of systems that way. Instead we feel they hinder the “real” us. But, as Seth Godin says here, “If process makes you nervous, it’s probably because it threatens your reliance on intuition. Get over it. […]

I have an autographed copy of the book by Dan Pink. I’ll give it away for FREE to a randomly chosen reader who emails or comments how they found out about this blog. Send your email or post your comment by noon, eastern time on Friday 4/28.
A Whole New Mind is about how economic changes […]

I’m not a big fan of cutesy sayings. But I was watching a promo video for an educational program designed to revolutionize your company. It’s an old video I found cleaning some junk so the program is probably obsolete.
However one of the testimonials was interesting. They guy said they don’t undertake any program unless it […]

When you hire a accountant or a lawyer or someone who charges by the hour, do you really want those hours? Does it make sense that if you ask a question they don’t know, and need to research you should pay more than if you ask one they know off the top of their head? […]

What’s considered “newsworthy” by the business press is either about trends that have a very broad appeal, or what Hugh McLeod calls business porn. The reason any kind of porn has any appeal at all is that it’s a fantasy. So that kind of business news is obviously irrelevant. As for the trends - they […]

Work is defined as moving objects at or near the surface of the earth, or telling others to do so. The first is uncomfortable and ill paid, the second is more enjoyable and better paid. - Old Joke (which isn’t as funny in the new economy).
Management is actually the job of coordinating effort so that […]

I’m barely a third of the way through this book and already want to recommend it. Don’t wait for me to finish - get reading. Porportedly based on habits that Harnish learned from reading about John D. Rockefeller (say what you will about the man’s morals, he did build a large profitable company) the book […]