December 2019 Monthly Musing “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T. S. Eliot Founder’s Corner Holiday Greetings As we complete another circuit around the
November 2019 Monthly Musing Someone asked, “What is your ‘Superpower’?” I told them that I am able to take a complex situation and distill it down to its major elements, prioritize the efforts necessary, and devise and deploy decisive responses – all in a fraction of the time it would take others. This is not
I write often about Operational Excellence. How we live in a world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). How time is the enemy of the 21st century company and that the organization that knows and trusts its capabilities (and also where they are lacking) is better prepared to synthesize decisions from imperfect data – operating
October 2019 Monthly Musing This is a generalization, but the real reason why most engineers rarely make good business people is because they are fixated on the perfect. They are terrified of what they do not know or understand – and even more terrified to release to those who do. Their idea of too much
In William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” (usually referred to simply as “Hamlet”), the main character, Hamlet, uses the phrase “undiscovered country” to refer to what lies beyond the grave – the afterlife – and our lack of knowledge of it, and our fear of it. As it is with death, so