Thoughts on Execution

Build Back Better means Build Back Kinder

Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet…
Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning‘. He was applying it to how we display mastery as…

Don’t be a Should Shoveller

I find that the people who should the most, often do the least. When I meet a manager who shoulds all over him or herself (an apt phrase at too…

Most strategic decisions are harmful or irrelevant

Most strategic decisions made by leadership teams are at best irrelevant, and at worst harmful. And this is for one simple reason. They don’t get implemented. This is especially the…

New processes won’t replace old (bad)habits

Those of us with an entrepreneurial mind tend to be bling-hogs (guilty as charged). Our bling is new books, new systems, new processes, new products, latest recruit, newest client… One…

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