Better Insights, Better Results
Before you worry about doing things better, faster, cheaper, you should worry about whether you are even doing the right things. After all, who cares about doing things right, if you aren’t even doing the right things. Once you are doing the right things, then you can worry about doing things right. In A Simple …
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.” — Doyle Brunson A mission is an organization’s core reason for existing. The mission is a declaration of the core purpose and focus. Some think of a mission as a calling. In A Simple Statement: A Guide to Nonprofit Arts Management and …
“A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.” — Ayn Rand Culture is not what you say, it’s what you do. A corporate culture is the values the organization lives by. It’s not what you say you value. It’s what you actually show you value, through your actions. It’s what people …
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” — Cecil Beaton When you plan a mission, you want it to right. But how do you plan it so that you stay agile, but …
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi In the military, rapid learning is a matter of life-and-death. Debriefs are an important way to create and capture lessons learned. The key is to do effective debriefs. In the book, Flawless Execution: Use the Techniques …
