Lots of simple ways to incorporate EV thinking into small projects. Sure, the “school solution” is biased towards large effort/long duration, but so what?  Then simplify: e.g., scale back % complete task  tracking to start= 50%, finish=100%.  You’ll be stunned by how much more you grok, but with minimal overhead. MORE >>

Just Ask Leadership Fail. finally have a few minutes — semi-snowbound here in Evansville — to catch up on old posting themes. Earlier this year I had a chance to do a Q&A with Gary Cohen, author of JUST ASK LEADERSHIP: Why Great MORE >>

Flight of fancy.now boarding! My first thought when I saw this post by Glen Alleman was ” cargo cult “  . I’m wary of concepts from hard sciences that find their way into business jargon, largely because the concepts become incantations.  It — as if the words in and of themselves suffice.   MORE >>

I loved this Atlantic piece about “pocket neighborhoods” , though the suburbs weren’t the application that first came to mind.  This design philosophy appears perfect for those “blighty” neighborhoods I see in town, just off the core.  However, they can stick out like a crude cap on a broken tooth. MORE >>

Glen Alleman passed along this link on the ERP paradox , which appears to be that: the end result of ERP implementations is often the opposite: less control, and efficiency; and even though the number of applications may be reduced, this advantage is often offset by the cost and effort of maintaining ERP systems. Homogeneity vs. MORE >>