Just before it’s possible, it’s impossible. An instant before you know how to do it, you don’t. After searching for the answer for a year, you may find it in the next instant. If you stop searching, that’s the only way to guarantee you won’t find it. When people say......
Health matters. What did you do this year to take care of your physical health? What did you do this year to take care of your mental health? Next year what can you stop doing to make it easier to take care of your physical and mental health? Without your......
X: We need to decrease the time to market for our new products. Me: So, you want to decrease the time it takes to go from an idea to a commercialized product? X: Yes. Me: Okay. That’s pretty easy. Here’s my idea. Put some new stickers on the old product......
X: Of the pool of candidate new product development projects, which project should we do first? Me: Let’s do the one that makes us the most money. X: Which project will make the most money? Me: The one where the most customers buy the new product, pay a reasonable......
I hear it’s a good idea to move manufacturing work back to the US. Before getting into what it would take to move manufacturing work back to the US, I think it’s important to understand why manufacturing companies moved their work out of the US. Simply put, companies moved their......
Show customers what’s possible. Then listen. The best projects are small until they’re not. Today’s location before tomorrow’s destination. The best idea requires the least effort. Ready, fire, aim is better than ready, aim, aim, aim. Be certain about the uncertainty. Do so you can discuss. Put it on one......
Choose the right project. When you say yes to a new project, all the focus is on the incremental revenue the project will generate and none of the focus is on unrealized incremental revenue from the projects you said no to. Next time there’s a proposal to start a new......
Do you believe in yourself? Belief in yourself manifests in your actions. What do your actions say about your belief in yourself? Belief in yourself doesn’t mean everything will work out perfectly. It means that you’ll be okay regardless of how things turn out. When you see someone that doesn’t......
When you see something, do you care enough to say something? If you disagree, do you care enough to say it out loud? When the emperor has no clothes, do you care enough to hand them a cover-up? Cynicism is grounded in caring. Do you care enough to be cynical?......
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