Sustaining Your Organizing Efforts

It’s Not the How, It’s the Discipline Through his own obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) Justin Klosky created the O.C.D. Experience. I asked Justin;  One of the things you mention is the discipline part of it which is always difficult for all of us to stay at. But we get this burning platform and we make Read More …

Moving from Product-Market Fit to Product-Habit Fit

Nir Eyal, author of  Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products, discussed his 4-step process for Building Habit Forming Products (podcast and transcription link):  The model is called the hook model and the four steps are a trigger, an action, a reward – and, often times, it’s a variable reward – and an investment. So by cycling users Read More …

The Concept of Helping

I am a big fan of Edgar Schein and his new book, Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling, is an excellent read and highly recommend it. However, I believe that you will be better prepared if you read Schein’s previous book on Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help. A Read More …

Jobs to Be Done Mindmap

I have a section in my office that I call the dirty book shelf. It is where books reside that have been marked up, highlighted, dog-eared and pretty much defaced. Most of them by now have a mind map that I have created. It was not till several months ago that I actually finally created Read More …

The Changing Face of Employee Engagement

Eric Michrowski is a globally recognized leader in combining Human Performance, Operational Excellence and Process Improvement to drive Business Transformations that achieve substantial shifts in Customer Experience, Operational Reliability, Employee Engagement and Financial Performance.   Combining elements of Organizational Development and Change Management, his approach is anchored in over 15 years of hands-on experience in a Read More …

Handling Impossible Projects

Michael Dobson (@sidewisethinker), author of Project: Impossible – How the Great Leaders of History Identified, Solved and Accomplished the Seemingly Impossible – and How You Can Too! was my guest last week in the podcast, How do you Handle an Impossible Project? This is a transcription of the podcast. Download or view the PDF: Handling Impossible Projects Read More …