books I Confused Learning With Scrolling The more I've thought about it, the more I've come to realize that I've confused consuming media with learning. I've gotten very good at taking information in. What I haven't been nearly as deliberate about is creating the space to process it and put it into action.
Getting Stuff Done Them's the Rules A few days of downtime in Taiwan gave me space to read—and notice a pattern: Most of the leaders I admire live by their own set of rules. That got me thinking—what are mine? Here’s what I came up with, and why defining your own “operating system” might just change how you work and live.
Areas of Interest SCALE and IDEAS - The Frameworks of the Exponential Organization Last week I posted about framework thinking and provided a short list of a few of my favorites. Here are two more that I am convinced will become very important over the next decade: SCALE and IDEAS, the frameworks of the exponential organization.
Areas of Interest Photography Is an Infinite Game When it comes to the sport of photography, here is the game: If the camera I am lugging around captures the light and motion better then my phone can, it's a win. If not, what's the point....Why? Because photography is an infinite game.
Business Communicating a Vision using PO3 Framework Communicating a vision: The PO3 framework - Purpose, Objective, Outcomes, and Outputs - offers a powerful tool for leaders to communicate their vision clearly and motivate their teams to achieve it.
Hobbies Is Learning to Play the Guitar a Biohack? I'm always on the lookout for hacks that make my brain work better. I'm not that bright to begin with so I need every edge I can find. I have come to believe that learning to play the guitar is actually a potent biohack.
Business How To Create a Digital Commonplace Book In the process of doing some research for our business I discovered how to create a digital commonplace book. It's my new favorite video game. For an investment of $8 a month and five minutes a day you can turn your brain into a giant tag cloud.
Business How to Prototype a Framework Over the last few weeks I have been prototyping a framework around my philosophy of operations management and distilling it down to a few fundamental ideas. This is how I did it.
Areas of Interest The Story of My $100 Cannon Rebel T1i This is a post about the concept of "getting off zero". It involves a used, ten year old camera that underperforms every new camera on the market today. It's my new favorite piece of technology and I have been taking it everywhere....
Tactics Always Sit At The Bar If you are an operations geek, sitting at the bar at a nice restaurant while at maximum capacity is like getting backstage tickets to a concert.
Tactics Buy A Giant Stack of Strengths Finder Books Strengths Finder 2.0 is hands down the book that I have most gifted to others. I give a copy to every leader I am mentoring, new supervisor, person who seeks career advice or even random people who ask me why I keep a stack of 15 copies of Strengths
Areas of Interest What can Leroy Jenkins Teach us about Front Line Shift Huddles? Leroy Jenkins is a ten year old internet meme. It’s also a great tool to initiate a discussion about shift huddle standards.
Business If I Wrote a Book I Would Title it "WTF is Happening Here?" If I were to write a book the title would be "WTF is happening here"? I actually think that this is a profound question that everybody should be asking. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't ask that question (sometimes multiple times each day).
