Do you consider behavior to optimize your business performance?
Any team’s performance or a business ability to change is dictated by each individual’s approach to the same issue, process, situation. The challenge is that everyone reacts differently, at different pace.
Climate Change and the Christmas Season
Have you ever wondered how a company’s strategy and commitment on climate change ends up being deployed? I do!
I Got A Career Changing Tip Walking In A Coffee Shop For Directions!
There I was in Hampton train station in Melbourne, convinced I was in the right suburb for the house inspections that were going to happen for the day. I was a new migrant in Australia for a week and had to find a permanent place to stay quickly, as the day by day rent costs were absurd for a fresh grad!
I decided to go into a coffee shop and ask for directions and approached the first person that was sitting there.
“Excuse me, could you please point me in the right direction to this address?”, I asked a gentleman who was reading the newspaper.
Are you a real problem solver?
Back in the 70’s Japanese farmers faced a problem…
Producing watermelons had the challenge of storage since they take too much space, and easily get damaged in transport…
Anyone would drop this fruit and go to the next one but instead, these farmers came up with an idea: Planting the seeds inside a squared box to create a square watermelon!
The Great Resignation it’s just a symptom. What is actual disease?
If you go to google and type “Great Resignation” you will find more detail than in here but basically, professor Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M University proposed the concept of the Great Resignation, which forecasts a high number of individuals quitting their professions once the COVID pandemic is over and society returns to “normal.”
How effective communication can lead to the reduction of time to market
From concept to design and then design to production, a product goes through the journey of creation all with the purpose of pleasing a customer. So how come the lead times and costs associated with this journey are enough to put some manufacturers out of business or to make some equipment impossible for organizations, such as start-ups, to afford?
How product and software design can influence social inclusion
In any business, a well-thought product design can be the difference between success and failure. If done right, it can influence a Profit and Loss statement and cut substantially operational costs. But did you know that a product design can make a real difference between inclusion and exclusion of minorities? So, when thinking of product design the question is: how well do you know your customers? The importance of quality and well-thought product design can make a real difference to the world as we know it.
If you are in a C-level role, do you REALLY know what is going on?
Once upon a time there was a very hard working little Ant….The CEO thought “If Ant works well without supervision, will work even better supervised…”. So he hired the Chameleon!”. The first thing the Chameleon did was to implement a clock in / clock out system…