The scope of our attention determines our reality. We create more work than necessary and hubris when our scope of attention extends into details not mattering to our particular task or intention. We create uncertainty and fear of the unknown when our scope of attention does not include the pertinent details for our task or… Read More
Make a Damn Decision
If you can’t make decisions, you’re not a leader. You restrict your ability to adapt and thus lose flexibility and diversity. Over time lack of decision-making will cause you to atrophy and be cut off from the systems you integrate with. This further restricts your ability to evolve with the world around you. Meaninglessness creeps… Read More
Are You Professional?
What is professional? According to a dictionary, to be professional is to be engaged in an activity as one’s main paid occupation rather than a pastime. What is unprofessional? Looking at the same computer dictionary, to be unprofessional is to be below the standards expected in a particular profession. What the…? Being unprofessional is about… Read More
Learn and Move on
There’s a couple of quotes on refrigerator magnets at home attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson that directly relate to the biz of you: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new… Read More
Learning to Manage Ourselves
My son had one of those evenings parents just want to let die and fade into the forgetton past. He was tired, unfocused and generally difficult at the end of the day. We tried being stern as well as soft-spoken and understanding. Nothing seemed to work. He was upset, five years old and determined to… Read More
Two Consequences of Our Decisions
A friend of mine at work brought out something he had posted on his wall years ago to post once again. He found the quote in a training package for leadership. There are some ideas that connect with us in multiple situations and times “The two most severe consequences decisions are success and failure.” -Anonymous If… Read More
The OODA Loop Part 4
As we learned in The OODA Loop Part 1, 2 and 3, the first step in the process we enact every waking moment of our lives is to Observe; the second is to Orient ourselves to our intent, resources, and continuous improvement; and the third is to decide what’s appropriate for our own personal biz.… Read More
The OODA Loop Part 3
As we learned in The OODA Loop Part 1 and 2, the first step in the process we enact every waking moment of our lives is to Observe and the second is to Orient ourselves to our intent, resources, and continuous improvement. The third step is to make a decision. As indicated earlier, a clear… Read More
The OODA Loop Part 1
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor E. Frankl from brainyquote.com Whether we are aware of it or not, we utilize processes throughout the days of our lives. When we make toast, get the… Read More
Business of You 