Your Tribe is the Strategy
The spreadsheet showed everything that should have mattered in my daughter's college choice: rankings, financials, programs, outcomes.
But
The Assembly Line Lesson
"Faster workers." Everyone said that was the key to better production. Everyone was wrong.
Henry Ford watched his
Data Casts Shadows
Your team just added six new metrics to the weekly dashboard. Someone spent three days building it.
Now you can
The Table in the Room
In a famous scene from Men in Black, military candidates squeeze into tiny classroom chairs, struggling with oversized test papers.
The Standards We Choose
You've heard it in boardrooms, delivered with that knowing half-smile: "The secret is to set low expectations.
Mission Beats Permission
Yesterday, our dashboard redesign meeting crashed to a halt with seven words:
"What if they don't like
Build Worlds, Not Logos
Standing in line at Epcot's Ratatouille ride, I heard the staff chatting in rapid French. Not classroom French
Clarity Is Not An Event
Picture this: An eager CEO stands before her team, delivering what she believes is the perfect announcement.
Her slides sparkle.
Trust Speaks Human
It happens every time. In the fluorescent-lit shops and bustling restaurants of New York's Chinatown, Xiaomanyc's
The Engineering Trap
Sleek screens. Every feature Facebook had, and more. Google+ wasn't launching a social network. They were engineering a