They say 70% of strategic initiatives fail, and of those that succeed are only 60% effective. In an environment of uncertaintly, chaos theory presents a likely explanation. My question to you is: will you 1) pretend it does not exist; 2) attempt to conform it to your will; or 3) accept and embrace it with open arms?
A month and over 600 responses into the My Pizza Personality project and my disillusionment with Twitter has solidified like congealed cheese. After weeks of selling any self-respect in 140 characters or less, I now have a bad taste in my mouth. However, that won’t stop me from going back for seconds with the thought that the next bite might be different.
Having a birthday in June is good, as it presents an opportunity to reflect both as a half-way point through the year and a start of a new age. This is also my first birthday with a blog. In the interest of full disclosure, I pause to reflect on the thoughts behind the face looking back at me in the mirror.
What is the most important thing you can be doing right now? We asked ourselves that question in the studio as we munched Cocoa Pops during our recent studio breakfast session reviewing Covey’s Habit 3: Putting First Things First.
I recently launched www.mypizzapersonality.com to help you find your inner pizza and to help me answer a very critical question. This is the story behind the project.
What would you consider your centre? Where are your values focused and from where do you draw your security, guidance, wisdom, and power? These are questions Covey asks and we ask ourselves in the studio we work through in the second part of Habit 2: Keeping the End in Mind.
I posted a while back about the complexities of our self-worship of the consumer god. Looking into our deific motivations a bit more for some recent research, this consumer god is a pretty complex creature. Just have a look at the diagram below* for some of the explanations that we have come up with to explain and “simplify” the purchasing process…
My kid traded her bike for pavement last week in her participation of one of life’s more popular character-building exercises. As I conveyed the particulars of the gaping bone-revealing wound to my friends and colleagues, they responded in-kind with their own superman-flights off rooftops and stumbles down stairs. Their responses made me aware of the interesting social norm of self-disclosure reciprocity.
If you have dealt with anyone you have considered a “client” or “customer”, you join millions who have followed a fairly typical five-step approach. You 1) define objectives, 2) work out how (or if) you can meet those objectives, 3) apply effort towards meeting those objectives, 4) deliver against those objectives, and 5) look back to see how you did. As we continue our studio journey through Covey’s 7 Habits with “Habit 2: keeping the end in mind”, we ask ourselves what it would look like to do step 5 on both ends.
We recently started a morning “breakfast club” in the studio, and first topic is the desktop reading of Covey’s .Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. His first principle of being proactive has unique application to a digital studio such as ours. …read more »
