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.
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 »
My observations and prescription for a 12-year old jerk-itus sufferer on a plane flight from the States to Australia may be too trite a solution for terrorism. Doesn’t mean I can’t try.
A pause in my blog provides a great opportunity for a New Year’s resolution. An intentional three-phased approach may help avoid the 88 percent failure rate for such endeavours. …read more »
This year’s leadership conference continued the humanitarian and postmodern message. Plenty to take away, the challenge now is in the application.
What do you do when you are impacted by unknowns? Whether you are dealing with live projects or dead cats, the concept of progressive elaboration can provide guidance.
I think this photo I took with my iPhone of the fireworks display for Brisbane’s River Festival is one of the best. Without understanding where I am coming from, you will likely disagree.
I came across this sign as I walked by a hospital a few weeks back. The underlying intent is ridiculous or informative, but either way I think the sign tells us more than it says.
