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What’s The Problem With Problems? | Slow Leadership on 2008-10-09
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Most people believe that their problems are unique to them. Many people believe problems are not a good thing to have.
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If you live, then you will have problems. Problems are requisite to life as we know it.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Leadership | PBS on 2008-10-08
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why Windows Vista was so late to market and such a mess when it finally shipped. Vista had plenty of management, but not very much leadership.
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This week former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said that John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden were all ill-suited to be CEOs of major corporations.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Door Number Three | PBS on 2008-10-08
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I have been fired from every job I have ever held.
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Most of the times I have been fired it’s because I’ve been judged to be unmanageable, which is to say I won’t shut up. The ultimate reason given is usually something minor. The last time around, for example, I was fired because I didn’t transfer the cringely.com domain to my employer.
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trendwatching.com: PERKONOMICS on 2008-10-02
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For years, airlines, hotels, credit card companies and private banks have been cleverly rewarding their most valuable customers with surprises, status symbols and convenience.
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Anything that you can do to help save consumers' precious time is worth its weight in, well, long lazy uninterrupted days. And that includes not wasting people’s time, too ;-)
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- Google Maps Assembler on 2008-10-02
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Training workers in PKM (personal knowledge management) on 2008-09-28
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- Pre-interview each employee in the organization to
understand their job, what knowledge and technology they use and how
they use it. - Pre-assemble a file of possible 'leave-behinds' -- 'cheat
sheets', step-by-step instructions, FAQs, bookmark lists etc. that the
employee is likely to find useful, based on your previous PPI sessions
with others with similar jobs or learning styles. - If you don't already have a personal content management program (see below) get this set up for the employee first.
- Schedule about an hour face-to-face with the employee. The
first half-hour should be spent observing and asking questions of the
employee to identify significant productivity problems. The second
half-hour should be spent showing
the employee more effective ways of doing their work, stepping them
through the leave-behinds, answering questions and getting feedback
from the employee on the value they feel they have received from the
session. - Compile a list of observations and systemic problems that
PPI cannot resolve, and present them to senior management for them to
address.
Personal Productivity Improvement: (leading practice: Ernst & Young, KPMG)
- Pre-interview each employee in the organization to
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- Personal Content Management:
- Work with each individual employee to help them organize
and index their 'My Documents' and e-mail folders in a way that makes
sense for them. A standard firm-wide taxonomy is rarely appropriate and
with current technology it is no longer necessary. Each person's files
should be set up the way they would set up their personal filing
cabinet if the documents were all hard-copy. Rather than by
subject-matter, the most effective organization scheme is often 'taskonomic' rather than taxonomic -- indexed by how
or when it will be (re-)used. - Deploy Google Desktop or some other fast, simple, powerful desktop search tool.
- Use RSS feeds to simplify 'publishing' and 'subscribing' to
others' content, and show employees how to use them and how to
integrate this content into their personal taxonomy. - If you have canvassing and/or harvesting programs (see below) show employees how to use them and how to integrate this content
into their personal taxonomy. - Develop and disseminate (with simple one-page instructions
or FAQs) routines and practices for effectively capturing, filing and
finding relevant knowledge in the context of what it is to be used for.
- Work with each individual employee to help them organize
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How we learn and why we don't on 2008-09-28
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we hardly ever do anything together
anymore. The job of the typical specialized 'knowledge worker' today
(despite the prevalent and somewhat fraudulent hype about collaboration
and work 'teams') is mostly individual, solitary activities and
experiences. And social and family discourse often centres around the
passive and individual watching of television or films or listening to
music. We often don't even eat together anymore, the primeval, original
social activity of all species. -
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- We don't allow ourselves (and society doesn't allow us) enough time for wonder.
- Our workplace activities and our home routines are often repetitious and stimulus-poor.
- We don't do anything together anymore.
- We get too much of our life experience second-hand (from books & movies, and online).
- We suffer from imaginative poverty -- we won't let ourselves imagine, and now we've largely forgotten how to imagine.
- Our lives are too organized and too scheduled to allow serendipitous experiences and hence serendipitous learning.
- In this world full of terrible knowledge and awful
realities, we are becoming afraid to learn. We cannot bear too much
reality, too much bad news, and we don't want to accept the awful
responsibility that knowing and learning brings with it.
- Everything about the current Western educational system impedes and discourages learning.
- The media have addicted themselves, and us, to facts rather than meaning.
- We have 'desensitized' ourselves -- we process everything mainly with our left brain, so we no longer really see, really hear, really smell, really taste, really feel.
top 10 constraints to learning in our modern culture:
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How we are inefficient on 2008-09-28
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"We don't know how to effectively organize, manage and find
the information we have now, in our offices, on our laptops, and in the
few shared databases we use, so we waste a huge amount of time 'looking
for stuff'." -
"We don't know who to talk to, to get information we need quickly, inexpensively and effectively."
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Become a More Effective Leader by Asking One Tough Question - Marshall Goldsmith on 2008-09-27
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What prevents us from making the changes we know will make us more effective leaders?
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The 'do-nothings' were good people with good values. They were intelligent
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The Art of Nonconformity » Time Is Money? on 2008-09-27
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Like money, time is limited. But unlike money, once time is gone, there’s no getting it back. You can’t earn back what has been spent.
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The story is about a Zen student who is running from a tiger in the forest.
The tiger is catching up to him, and the only way out is to jump over a cliff that leads to certain death on the rocks below.
With no real options, the Zen student jumps over the cliff, and just manages to grab on to a branch halfway down.
Beside the branch is a bush of wild strawberries, and the student reaches over with one free hand and takes one.
With the tiger above him and certain death on the rocks below him, he slowly eats the strawberry.
And as he does, he thinks, “This is the best strawberry I have ever tasted.”
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Thank you for your attention. Now, get back to work.
Because Time Is Money… right?
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