Category: Leadership

Nurture Your First-Followers, or You’re Just a Lone Nut!

Here is a fan­tas­tic lit­tle video that I came across, demon­strat­ing how vital it is for would-be lead­ers to nur­ture their first fol­low­ers.  The video’s nar­ra­tion says every­thing that I could say about this video. I’ll warn you that it’s got the same smooth track­ing and motion that Blair Witch Project did — that means, put […]

Sunday February 14th, 2010 in Leadership | Comments Off

Deep Lessons from the World of Pasta Sauce

When it comes to human behav­ior and human pref­er­ences, there is no one best way to do things.  Tay­lorism is fine and dandy for auto­matic pro­duc­tion in fac­to­ries, but as a frame­work for think­ing about the world, “the one best way” is a sure way to busi­ness dis­as­ter (or at least sub-par per­for­mance) and an […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Leadership, Marketing, Tastes & Experiences | Comments Off

Did You Know Addresses Don’t Work the Same Way Everywhere?

It’s really cool to find out that I’ve been using a basic assump­tion that I didn’t even know was there. There are some things that are so fun­da­men­tal to the way that peo­ple where we grow up think that we don’t even real­ize that cer­tain basic assump­tions have been made.  It is not until we see […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Communication, Leadership, Other Fun Stuff | Comments Off

Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick – Jack Better Have a Top-Tier Team

Wel­come to Gov­ern­ment,” said my friend after I voiced my frus­tra­tion at the lack of clear, unam­bigu­ous com­mand and respon­si­bil­ity within the health sec­tor. Most of us have seen the tele­vi­sion crime dra­mas or movies where local law enforce­ment is inves­ti­gat­ing an inci­dent when the black cars car­ry­ing the Feds arrive.  Guys in dark suits […]

Do Event Planning Backwards Only If You’re the Gambling Type

When plan­ning for a major event involv­ing mul­ti­ple par­ties and agen­cies, par­tic­u­larly when mul­ti­ple spe­cial­ties are involved, effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion is absolutely crit­i­cal.  Every­one needs to under­stand who’s in charge, where they will get infor­ma­tion from, and who they will give infor­ma­tion to.  You need to have a solid com­mand, con­trol and com­mu­ni­ca­tion (C3) struc­ture in […]

Friday January 15th, 2010 in Communication, Emergency Management, Leadership, Systems + Processes | Comments Off

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