Look for Patterns, Not Problems

Most people can see and solve a problem, and certainly an organization can do that. What salespeople should try to discover are the patterns that are associated with the product/service that they provide.  In Henry Cloud’s work,Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life, he discusses two types Read More …

Breaking thru Sales Deadlocks

Dealstorming” is Tim Sanders’s term for a structured, scalable, repeatable process that can break through any sales deadlock. He calls it “a Swiss Army knife for today’s toughest sales challenges.” Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges drives sales innovation by combining the wisdom and creativity of everyone who has a stake in the sale. About Read More …

I carried Ed Deming’s Bag

He was doing several of these every year, 4-day sessions, and he had just lost his personal assistant, or I should say scared him off. Knuth thought that would be a wonderful thing for me to do for awhile, so I spent a little bit of time carrying his bags. An excerpt from next week’s Read More …

Becoming a Lean Construction Consultant

Dave MacNeel of On Point Lean Consulting: Lean Construction was my guest this week on the podcast. On Point Lean Consulting provides on-site Lean Construction coaching and training for owners, builders, and designers looking to improve the delivery of capital projects. Dave has a few great stories as he went from project management, introducing Lean into a construction company Read More …

Public Innovation: Cleveland Clinic Way

I asked Dr. Graham, the author of Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work this question: You talk about these practices, and I assume you believe they could be used by others in the medical field, that’s why you wrote the book, but what about outside the medical field? An excerpt from the Read More …

How does Organizational Agile Look

Every organization is Agile these days. You kind of eluded to it there before in our conversation. How has that affected your work or other parts of the organization are saying, we all need to have daily stand-ups. Are they taking the tools and maybe not some of that real Agile spirit? – Joe Dager Read More …