7 Steps to Define Your Business Process

There are two main challenges to documenting, streamlining, and automating complex business processes.   It’s All In Your Head: As the business owner or operator, you have full knowledge

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Pick Yourself First

Seth Godin has a podcast episode on Akimbo about getting picked for a team (You’re It).  Very few of us were consistently picked first, and many of us

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The Blind Spot in Want Ads

“The major blind-spot in want-ads is an assessment that we need to increase the number of people engaged in production, rather than increasing the production of value through

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The Time for the MAP is Before Entering the Organization

We live in a task-, project-, and objective-based society.   How do we bridge that gap between the tasks that rule our lives, and what we really care about?  Living

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Vision, Cookies, and Marshmallows

At first glance, it’s hard to see any connection between the vision one may have for a corporation, department or one’s self, and Cookies or Marshmallows. I have

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