This post could come from different angles as the “dark side” can refer to many different things, some quite fun. To keep with the nature of this blog, the dark side I refer to is what was previously posted. The dark side of freedom is our choice and the fantasy of everything we could be or… Read More
Observing and Orienting Ourselves
Most of my posts follow the same structure. There’s an observation followed by an orientation to the idea of managing the business of you. This approach illustrates the first two steps of a process we all follow when awake. We observe or experience what’s happening around us. We naturally orient our experience to our map… Read More
Improving with Feedback
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.” “True nobility is being superior to your former self.” Earnest Hemingway as quoted by Harry Hart in The Kingsman This quote captures the essence of continual improvement within the framework of Managing the Business of You. Improvement is about learning. It’s about increasing our… Read More
Being More Human
A friend of mine shared a Fortune Magazine article with me. In Humans are Underrated (http://fortune.com/2015/07/23/humans-are-underrated/) by Geoff Colvin, there are some excellent observations and feedback we can learn from and continue adapting to our modern age. Technology is replacing jobs around the world. Think of robot surgeons, cars and truck drivers. Software can research legal… Read More
Do you know the roots of your issues?
Without knowing the cause of our issues it’s really hard to make changes last beyond our attention spans. As indicated in the previous post, the first step in correcting a problem is to contain the situation so there are no further negative impacts. The second thing to do is seek an understanding of why the… Read More
Have you audited yourself?
If you know you have a problem, the first step is to contain the negative affects. As stated last week we had an audit resulting in finding lapses in our ability to do what we say and say what we do. We had a challenge to our organizations integrity. As required by the aerospace standard… Read More
Feedback on Integrity
This week was the audit of my company’s business management system. Today is the last day of the audit where we receive the final report indicating any major or minor findings and observations. To help my eight-year-old daughter understand what an audit is like I asked her what her standardized tests were like. She told… Read More
What is a Learning Organization?
The idea of a learning organization is typically associated with companies that continuously transform and adapt to remain competitive in business. Peter Senge coined the idea from his research of systems at the MIT Sloan School of Management and work with colleagues. A learning organization has five main features: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models,… Read More
Always Updating
As I tell my son and daughter, “I want to be learning to the end of my days” and “everyday we should be improving.” This is true for everything we do. I recent came across a blog post indicating that the most important pages on a website is the about pages. This person summarized “How… Read More
Seeking the Best in Ourselves
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a… Read More
Business of You 