The Value of Value
Hire this person who has the experience or wait to find someone who fits our culture? Discount out of fear that this client will leave …
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Other’s Worth
For far too long, too many of us have defined our self-worth based on what other people think. Most of us have fuzzy self-views. We …
Why We Needn’t Hire The Experienced
Back in day, when things were more Industrial-Age-same-same, we could hire people based on their experience. The question, “Have they done this successfully elsewhere?” was …
Shared Values and Unshared Values
Shared values are helpful in teams. If you and I have similar values, we will have less conflict and our collaboration will be easier. But …
Value the Learners
We don’t want to learn anymore because that would imply we aren’t capable yet. We want to be competent. Yet our work is about creating …
Under Stress, We Do Exactly the Wrong Things
Under stress, we act in ways that directly counter our values/motivators/drivers.. If, for example, we value practicality, under stress we will do very impractical things. …
The Value To Our Clients Matrix
Based on our clients’ understanding of the problems and solutions they face, we can provide them more or less value. The more value we provide …
Two Levers for Collaboration
There are at least two levers we can use to collaborate better with others: style and motivators. We each have a behavioral style. When our …
Fit and Freaks
“It is OK to let your freak flags fly and embrace the quirkmeister that’s inside of all of us.” –k.d. lang The truth is, we …
Debugging Delegation
There are four reasons people fail to delegate when they should. They Fear doing it incorrectly. “I don’t know what to delegate or how to …