It’s easy to think everything needs to have a technology component to it. If something is broken there “must be an app” for that or there must be a tool for it. My favorite example is when I left a job many years back and when I followed up with one of the developers they said – “we replaced you with a bunch of tools” – (pun intended and funny) – but it didn’t do…
Everyone wants to play in the big game. We spend all our time working up towards it, focused on it, moving forward toward it, and becoming something from it. We put so much into that big meeting that we feel as though everything is based on it and nothing else will matter. And then it’s over. And we start again.
It might seem as though you are being mean when you dissuade conversation or try to bring people back to the focus and purpose of the meeting. It’s even odd that this would be interpreted as mean. A team that goes into a meeting, chat on a topic for an hour with no discernible outcome is the definition of a “meeting that could have been an email.” Set the goal for the meeting, if you…
It happened, you have debt, and right now it might be akin to standing in a room with a mess all around you and you don’t know where to start. Despite everything that’s around you, you can’t do it all at once, to do so would mean putting the breaks on everything else you are doing – which most companies cannot afford primarily because customers are key. Where to start? Get the small wins -…
I was working on a problem the other day with my Azure tenant. It wasn’t so much a problem as I was trying to find something – going through menus, searching for services (that the vendor no longer offered) – when I was prompted to fill out a survey and rate my service with Azure. At that point in time – zero. The only use my phone home has these days is to be picked…