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Easygoing, Right, Wrong, and Difficult
This post is an expansion of the concept in Valuable Jerks. Also, Nadyne Richmond. Say your team has a project that needs execution. Launching a new product? Trying to land a customer? Trying a new process improvement? If it’s at all interesting, then it’s not obvious what to do and that means leadership is trying…
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Communication in Teams
Question: how should your team ensure that other teams know everything you’re doing so the organization is more efficient? Answer: Use all of these tools. Push regular broadcasts of information (note that everyone will complain that the format sucks, the medium sucks, and the information that you provide is both too general and too specific)…
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Proving a Negative
Proving a negative is a tautological impossibility right? That’s the security business. Prove that you haven’t been hacked. Of course, many vendors realize this is impossible. Fact is, it would require the customer to understand everything they do in total detail so they could call out what was bad behavior. Once again, impossible. What else…
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Conference Giveaways
Remember going to conferences? When I was a young sales engineer and going to my first conferences, it was clear that an attempt to attract visitors with a freebie or a lottery for a big thing was a strategy. Maybe not a great strategy, but there it is. Notable factors: the thing should be something…
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Consulting’s Bad Rap
Naming no names… but there’s a type of management consulting shop with an unsavory reputation among middle managers and individual contributors. Let’s look at how the reputation is earned: by training to a model that produces failure as often as not, but always successfully deflects blame. It’s easy to find problems, and easy to sell…
