When my father observed that I was interested in photography and actually reasonably good at it,...
Leadership topic - observe
and rapidly respond to critical opportunities. Evaluate all problems and solutions from different angles, involve stakeholders in solution formation, and experiments with a pilot before taking a project to the next level; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers; sought out by others for advice and solutions.
Roadblock – Is not open to criticism; gets upset and blames others for problems; Picks a side versus finding a path to the middle
observing Efficiently…
Listen on iTunes When I was a small baby, my parents were out visiting Mom’s folks in Lubbock,...
How does observing Heal?
One universal comment from people of my generation about the current times is “Thank GOODNESS...
A Goal to observe…
I started this blog to explicitly keep me from writing and commenting about politics, and I don’t...
observing Retrospectively…
Retrospectives are at their heart all about observation. It is taking time out to look at what...
observing Un-expectations..
Knowing that you need to make a change, and actually doing it are related, but take a different...
observing Preparation
I exited Ops to go back into the Development part of Fannie, supporting a group of reusable...
observing Persistence
As engineering continued to grow, I picked up another direct report with a great team focusing on...
The Promise of observation…
Like children, you don’t really have favorites on a Team… or shouldn’t. It is where the analogy...
Thanks-observing
Happy Thanksgiving! ….and, of COURSE I have a story - actually more than one. Come on - it is...
What does Change observe?
So at this point, we were trying to get a staid Federal manufacturing facility to become "lean"...
observing Hope…
Now surfing across the top of IBM, I had access to VP's and Senior Vice President's who literally...
Fun observations…
This little card from Intel was roiling large portions of IBM, which I had Fun observing. This...
The Opportunity to renew…
I have written about being fired before, and I have used that story with a number of others who...