Can Lean lead to Better Intuition?

One of the most difficult things to teach people is intuition. Even when you say, “How to become more intuitive?” it seems to have this mystical sound to it. In Gary Klein’s book, The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work, he discusses the ability to recognize Read More …

Mapping your Bounded Rationality

This Introduction to Concept Mapping by Robbert Hubbard gives clear-cut instructions to getting started. You may want to follow along with making notes in a mapping practice. Bounded Rationality? Rick explains that in the video. A great learning tutorial is available at http://learn.cmappers.net/ The book that covers this mapping process in great detail: Applied Concept Read More …

Ashton’s Sales Psychology

Leigh Ashton is the author of iSell and head of The Sales Consultancy. She specializes in helping people incorporate psychology alongside technical selling skills – leading to positive changes to their attitude, their approach and their sales results. Leigh works with business owners, directors, managers and sales teams to identify and eliminate their psychological barriers, Read More …

Reproduction is not about Balance

The EcoSphere and “Original Ecosphere” are trademark names for sealed blown-glass miniature aquaria produced by Ecosphere Associates, Inc., of Tucson, Arizona, United States. The Original EcoSphere is the world’s first totally enclosed ecosystem – a complete, self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in glass. You can purchase one and read the full description EcoSphere Closed Read More …

Increase your Innovation Capacity: Manage your Sphere of Influence

In an Outcome-Based mapping approach, we do not try to reach out immediately to the beneficiaries or all the people/organizations that may have an interest in our product or service. We reach out to people/organizations that we can influence. This is quite different from the Lean StartupTM approach where we are trying to find product/market Read More …

A Lean Salesperson Should Never Ask Why?

When most people think about Lean, they view Lean only from a problem solving perspective, that 5 Why stuff. In that context, a Lean sales person would assume the role of an expert solving a problem for someone. When I apply Lean to Sales and Marketing, I view Lean as a knowledge building exercise. It Read More …