Critical data

We can only manage what we measure. It is difficult to appreciate our progress unless we have a target we are working toward and a base from which we are working. At that point, we can assess where we are on the continuum of base to goal. The question that we then...

Time to act

While it may not be going to plan, you remain optimistic or at least hopeful. See musing, It’s the hope that kills. Too often, the demise is inevitable, and our inability to act now creates further damage beyond that incurred to date. The underperforming and...

It’s the hope that kills

The facts layout in totality and clearly. With looming eventualities, possible becomes predictable and soon probable. We hold on. Too often, well beyond any reasonable logic. Because we hope....

Olympians

Those athletes who attain a level many may aspire to, and yet few achieve this impressive feat. We may put it down to good genes and opportunities. However, this is not only athletes but people in business, academics, founders of non-profits, scientists, doctors, and...

Principle of threes

Threes is my preferred practice for setting priorities, goals, or objectives. A single priority seems too simple and lacks diversity in what one must achieve. Two is palatable. Three is a manageable stretch, and four or more seem to have lost any urgency or sense of...