Understand the culture of the new company (with which you are joining or negotiating) and its standards of what is reasonable.
James Nunan – Business person
What’s the best metaphor for defining the project structure and process for getting lean and agile work done? It may be an orchestra. Continue reading
Twelve days after a portion of Interstate 95 collapsed in north Philadelphia during a truck fire, officials opened a temporary six-lane roadway to serve motorists while a permanent overpass is rebuilt. This was a major success after the June 11, 2023, disaster was predicted to snarl traffic for months. Continue reading
Thousands of incidents involving toxic substances harm and kill workers — and the public — every year. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, exposure to harmful substances and fires/explosions are the fifth and sixth leading causes of workplace fatalities, respectively.[1] Continue reading
We make decisions all the time. Often our decision making is with little more than a gut feeling.
When faced with a major decision we often look data to help us decide. Is the product reliable enough as designed? Which field returns indicate we should stop production?
Some decision may help us earn or lose thousands if not millions of dollars. Continue reading
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard – Philosopher
Several years ago, there was an ad for Putnam Investments:
“You think you understand the situation, but what you don’t understand is the situation just changed.”
Amen! This seems to be a fundamental Disruption Rule: When I think I’ve just got it, ‘got’ and ‘it’ both seem to have changed. This could be on a global, business, and personal level. Continue reading