This is my story and in many ways may become the story of your work, career, and job. So, pay heed. Understand the conventional rules and challenge/hack the rules of work. Your story arc will be different.
I started out of high school doing manual work. My first job was as an ordinary seaman in the merchant marine. I worked on rust buckets on and off for 5 years. This manual work was very hard and frankly not suited to my style, abilities, temperament, and life direction. Continue reading
It is said that there are two types of forecast…lucky or wrong. The outcome of a forecast can mean the difference between the success or failure of a venture; predicting the future is fraught with risk and it can be quite literally be a gamble. Information is typically incomplete, and foretelling requires assumptions and guesses as people spend valuable time preparing plans and schedules, resource estimates, and budgets and cash flows upon which execution will depend. Continue reading
I have been an entrepreneur and in business – nonstop – since 1985. And over the course of those 30-plus years, I have gained a lot of experience. But as the saying goes; “Experience is the most difficult teacher, she gives the test first and teaches the lesson after.” So I can say, with some degree of certainty, that I have made every mistake a business person could make. Sometimes, I would repeat the mistake just to be certain. Continue reading
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As I started my career, I focused on mastering the tools. My first accelerated test plan and results used a Wiener diffusion model and non-linear regression techniques. Presenting the methods and results, my boss asked, “What does it mean to our business and customers?” Continue reading
In my previous blog (Issue 222), it was noted that ISO clearly states – “There is no requirement to certify an ISO management system standard.[i]” This statement by ISO is unqualified. It means any ISO management system standard. ISO also states in the management system standards with the high-level structure – “This International Standard[ii] contains the requirements used to assess conformity. Continue reading