You Get What You Measure?
I wrote a post some time back about Men’s Figure Skating and Measures. In contrast, I read another quote from an unnamed source: “You get what you measure, but don’t be surprised if people are...
View ArticleThe Invisible Hand of the Market Place and Predictability
The invisible hand of the marketplace was many individuals working in their own self interest. Now, the invisible hand is automated and model driven (I call it "Invisible Hand 2.0"). In order for...
View ArticlePsychological Predictors of Success
Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise” identifies 5 intellectual and psychological abilities that predict success in baseball. I felt they apply to most work environments: 1) Preparedness and work...
View ArticleBig Data, Invisible Hand 2.0, and Benford’s Law
How am I ever going to bring together "Outliers", The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace 2.0, Big Data, and Benford's Law?
View ArticleProject Communications Management
Brian Erwin has a seven step process for managing stakeholder expectations. From his book: Identify, Gather information, Interest in the outcome (positive or negative), Assess proximity, Assess...
View ArticleInnovation at IDEO
I read “The Art of Innovation” by Tom Kelley where Kelley walks through IDEO’s product development process. The idea being that you (any company) could approach IDEO’s innovation by implementing this...
View ArticleGrace
Several years ago, my mother-in-law passed away after several years of fighting cancer. In her last few days, she frequently said words of encouragement and thankfulness to the nurses and staff. Just...
View ArticleFunding Agile Projects
The instances of funding Agile development at the project level, all seemed to be in the early stages. In each of these cases, there was ongoing oversight from a committee that could regularly review...
View ArticleCreating Diversity
In True Colors, I am a green, orange, gold, blue. In Myers-Briggs, I am an ENTJ. In DISC am a high D, high I. In Critical Thinking University, I am inquisitive. Hermann brain dominance I am left...
View ArticleBig Data, and what does that mean?
I believe Big Data is the most overused term in business today. And, in the overuse, it has become near meaningless. Possible that the “cloud” is approaching that same level of use, perhaps with less...
View ArticleWhat does sustainability have to do with whose side you are on?
Fractures and factions tear apart. They are the tools of entropy. A sustainable model brings together.
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