Why Fight the Client?
A good friend of mine is a realtor, I submit to you, a very good one at that. Great negotiator, great source of knowledge and tradeoffs and the realities that go into real estate buying, ownership and selling. If I am you, you want him on your team.
Like with everyone else, when [...]
Weird, I admit, but it seems to me that change is broken. We all love the results of change… maybe… depending on if it is a better future for us or not. That is what I mean, change for change sake is broken for us. Isn’t that the case? It seems to me that what [...]
So far the people making fridges are trying to make them “smart” by making sections of them pressure sensitive. Then the fridge knows if the milk is low because of the weight on the milk’s pressure pad.
Problem, we all want to have our fridges tell us what we need but there are a couple hic [...]
Broken: Thermostat. Even the fancy preprogramed digital ones, broken. I know they work, but they are broken. They don’t provide what we want from a thermostat.
What we want to do is manage the temperature in our homes so that we can save money and consume less. The solution we have does not capitalize on our [...]
Broken: my shaving cream lid. For that matter, everyones shaving cream lid.
It might not seem broken to you but it does to me. I dislike having to stick the cream on my hand and then on my face. I already have something to wash, my face, why do I have to also wash my hand? [...]
Tonight my wife and I went out to our favorite Italian place. We walked. Yeah, even in MN we walked. Burr… cold. We love this place. Dinner was great.
We were sitting around after eating, talking, observing the people around, you know, normal stuff. One gentleman was waiting, standing and waiting, for quite sometime, say 10-15 minutes for [...]
I know you just want to fix that title, don’t you?
For the longest time I fell I have been at war with the forces of spelling and grammar in our culture. We love perfect things, at least what we deem as perfect, don’t we? When I was in grade school I can remember crying my [...]
I got a new snowboard and bindings recently. In case your wondering, wow, yes it does make a huge difference. Sharp edges and higher performance materials make a massive impact on the responsiveness of the board and the experience of the rider! It leads me to wonder about how the metaphor relates to change in business. You?So, when snowboarding started [...]
So, you teach a class and most of them meet once… maybe twice a week. Why not have an email review of your lecture in macro form sent out to your audience a couple days after your lecture? Then you could even get interactions going after the fact.
Let’s face it, if your class meets once [...]