Day 320 – Pattern Recognition Speeds up Decision Making
I have been involved in the Chess World for the last 20 years. My friend and I own a non-profit chess club, so we stay on top of the game and do our best to sponsor chess where we can. I have learned that there is this popular pre-conceived notion about chess that people come […]
Day 319 – Design is the Focus on What Ought to Be
I am in the process of designing some new ideas, new offerings, and new ways to position value to potential customers. This seems like a simple exercise from afar. Do you think I am going to sit down and come up with how to design an offering that our clients will really like? That’s no […]
Day 318 – What is Your Era?
So this is a tad embarrassing, but I was getting ready to graduate from high school when Taylor Swift was a newborn. The fact that I was alive for each and every Swift era is not the embarrassing part. What is embarrassing is that I had no idea that there was even such a thing […]
Day 317 – Time for Creativity
A talent that I have always had is the ability to look at situations from a different angle and come up with creative solutions. To me, these always seem obvious; to others, they seem obscure and unexpected. This is second nature to me and sometimes a little distracting. Sometimes I need to see a clear […]
Day 316 – The Power of Naivety
How many times has this story happened to you? I interviewed a young, energetic woman who seemed to have a lack of experience, but her enthusiasm was exciting, so I ended up hiring her for no other reason than to give a shot in the arm to the rest of the team, who seemed boring […]
Day 315 – Getting to Simplicity Requires a Lifetime of Complexity
When I started my first real golf experience, I was pretty young. My father taught me, as is the case with most young boys. However, I did not really “get into it” until I was older. Sometimes in my twenties, I picked up the quintessential book on the Golf Swing by Ben Hogan. I was […]
Day 314 – When it Comes to Doing Hard Things – Context is Everything
It is interesting how we tend to forget how hard we are working when we are having fun doing it. For example, if I had to go into my backyard and run back and forth from end to end forty times and jump up and down over 1000 times, I would not do it. I […]
Day 313 – When Intelligence Becomes Noise
You receive new intelligence. Information on a subject matter that you are interested in, that you instinctively know will help you, and so you dive in. You get more intelligence, trying to learn exactly how this new concept can help you. So you gather, you learn, you research. You find people all over the place […]
Day 312 – Don’t Advertise Big Macs to Epicures
If you were a gourmet chef who was starting a new restaurant, then you would want your prospective patrons to be epicure, foodies, or connoisseurs of fine dining. So, if someone came to you with a proposal to help you advertise cheap hamburgers to your community, then you would laugh at them. Now, you are […]
Day 311 – Methodology is not Strategy
I saw this video demonstration of the frequently discussed “double-slit” experiment. If you are not familiar, effectively, when you have two parallel slits in a barrier and you send large objects towards it, some of the objects will make it through. You would expect, and it does happen, that this will produce the effect of […]