- Homepage
http://
-
Productivity Hack: Thinking in layers
I just finished reviewing a colleague’s latest project. It is absolutely beautiful. It’s a collection of very pretty looking documents and forms that you can use to keep track of your professional accomplishments and portfolio. The idea is that each person can use it to cultivate more agency in the professional development process — and…
-
Yes, I’ve been gone for 9 months, because 2020
I find it amusing that my last post, exactly 9 months and 1 day ago, was about burnout. That’s before we knew what would happen just 8 weeks later, when we’d all go into a collective (and very dull) sweat lodge to rediscover ourselves by immersion in the ordinary. Which, as it turns out, also…
-
Burnout at Work? It’s Not Your Fault
Over the past week, I’ve noticed lots of people on social media talking about burnout — loss of energy, loss of enthusiasm, and loss of self-confidence at work. The holidays have ended, and it seems many are not getting back into the swing like they hoped they might. Are you burned out? If so, you’ve…
-
Top 10 Business Books You Should Read in 2020
I read well over a hundred books a year, and review many for Quality Management Journal and Software Quality Professional. Today, I’d like to bring you my TOP 10 PICKS out of all the books I read in 2019. First, let me affirm that I loved all of these books — it was really difficult…
-
The Endowment Effect: The Ultimate Organizational Rose-Colored (Risk-Enhancing) Glasses
Fifteen or so years ago, I was a member of a review team that assessed a major, multi-million dollar software project. We were asked to perform the review because the project had some issues — it cost nearly $2M a year, was not yet delivering value to users, and had been running for 17 years.…
-
The U.S. Constitution is a Quality System
In 2008, I defined a quality system as: …your organization’s blueprint: it identifies your business model and processes, provides details about how your people will work together to get things done, and establishes specifications for performance — so you can tell if you’re on track… or not. https://qualityandinnovation.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/quality-system/ By this definition, the U.S. Constitution is…
-
Things I’m Thankful For
Although there are many aspects of my life that I’m thankful for (e.g. my cat, the people around me, the amazing R community and the software they build), this post is going to be focused on THINGS I am thankful for. These things definitely improve my quality of life. I don’t usually venture outside the…
Quality and Innovation 