Making Processes More Effective By Knowing The Concepts Behind Them
Posted on22 Apr 2019
Tagsrecipe analogy, concepts, Great British Bake Off, analogy collection, process, example, decisions, change management
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The key to making processes more effective is to accept that they don’t fit all cases perfectly. The downside of processes is... Read More
Wood Splitting Teaches Us About Knotty People
Thinking at the intersection of ideas is very helpful in solving problems. The book, The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson, says this... Read More
Soft Tissues, Soft Skills, Hard Work
Posted on24 Jul 2014
Tagsbody analogy, training, soft skills, hard skills, analogy collection, Soft Tissue-Soft Skills Analogy
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The body has 206 bones. The number of skeleton muscles is in the 639-850 range depending on definition, not including though the... Read More
Danger of Humbleness
Posted on09 Jun 2014
Tagsclarity, lying, perspective, Talent, truth, Twitter, humbleness, Michelle Held, analogy collection, Sun Doesn't Know Analogy
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Michelle Held (Twitter), an entrepreneur who helps businesses develop corporate pro-social presences and mentors nonprofit start-ups, prompted this post. She requested elaboration... Read More
Naturally Using Strengths to Overwhelm Weaknesses
Posted on22 May 2014
Tagsblitzkrieg, Talent, training, trees, World War II, growth, StrengthsFinders 2.0, Tom Rath, analogy collection, Tree - Development Analogy
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One morning I joined a sales person on her sales calls. At lunch, she asked what I thought. I told her. She... Read More
Venting, Wetsuit Analogy
Posted on17 Apr 2014
Tagsconflict, conflict management, dissent, diversity, listen, management, relationships, Talent, venting, venting-wetsuit analogy, analogy collection
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Venting is critical to a healthy culture. Unfortunately, we often characterize venting as “negativity,” “resisting change,” “not a team player,” “not with... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 8): Top Rule Violator
We often have idealized visions of leaders and leadership, treating them as universal goods where only bad people can make them bad.... Read More
Emotional Self-defense for Sensitive People (Pt 9): Oak & Apple Trees
Posted on10 Feb 2014
TagsEmotional Self Defense Series, management, oak tree, Performance, Personality, sensitive people, success, The Atlantic, University of California Berkeley, Oak & Apple Tree Analogy, David Dobbs, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University, Bruce Ellis, University of Arizona, W. Thomas Boyce, orchid-dandelion hypothesis, apple tree, analogy collection, Oak & Apple Tree Personality Analogy
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The difference between oak and apple trees fascinates me. Oak trees produce many acorns surviving squirrels and insects; however, few apples of... Read More
Leveraging Compliments in Conversations, A Technique
This post follows up mine on personalization. It illustrates a basic conversational technique leveraging the relationships we’ve developed to generate cooperative action.... Read More
Problem-solving Technique, Questioning Details
Posted on09 Jan 2014
Tagsdefinitions, details, open-ended questions, problem solving, process, training, Picture Resolution Analogy, brain exercising, analogy collection
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Once we detail our problem using the five introductory steps from my prior post or some other method, questioning these details begins.... Read More
