How a Jazz Quartet exhibits Pull

Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand – What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don’t react to them appropriately. More importantly, Stefon description of how pull works in the Read More …

Business901 #1 Podcast of the Year

Jim (“Cope”) Coplien podcast, Coplien on Agile, Lean and Architecture was the most listened Business901 podcast of the year. In the podcast, we discussed his new book, Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development. Cope’s view on Lean and Agile is quite interesting and his knowledge of the subject goes far beyond the software practices that Read More …

Are your Managers managing Technology? Or…

..is technology managing them? What about innovation? What about marketing? As organizations continue to get flatter and flatter, we continue to put more and more pressure on the few left in middle management. It’s not just the personnel either. That may be the easy part. Now, we are being faced with everyone becoming customer facing, Read More …

Timeboxing using Pomodoro!

The quickest drivers of time management is visualization, focus and clarity. What I talked about the other day is to have an action step with your reference material in hand, Evolution of Standard Work in my Sales and Marketing and Even Seinfeld used Standard Work. Be able to complete the task without having to look Read More …

Inspiring Innovation thru Standard Work

Standard work should be an enabler of innovation, not a hindrance. In an upcoming Business901 podcast with Terri Griffith, we will take a look at a few of these principles and find out why it is so important to access where you are at before venturing into the unknown. In the premier show of Innovators Read More …