Archive for May, 2008

Enterprising young band

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Talk about creativity and working on a budget, check out what this band did in the UK.

Stop and smell the roses

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Would you stop to listen to a musician who commands $1,000 per minute?  Really?  For the answer on how over 1,000 other people responded read this absolutely fascinating article.  Pretty interesting snapshot of our culture, our busy-ness, our priorities, and our appreciation for beauty.  Allow yourself some time…the article is not brief.
The article also references […]

Eliminating Information Frustration

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Getting closer to my mantra instead of my mission statement.  Guy Kawasaki often espouses the importance of having a mantra instead of a mission statement, and so does Andy Stanley.  For the longest time I struggled to put into a brief mantra what it was that I was really setting out to do.  I’m trying to […]

Pick a number, just any number…

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Seth Godin has it right on this recent post.
"The power of a number is the effect we saw when they put a number on restaurants (Zagats) and wines (Parker) and gas mileage (the EPA).  People notice a number, and they work to improve it."

Lean practitioners have been quoting Taiichi Ohno for quite some time, […]

Jim Womack’s e-book thingy

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Not sure what it’s referred to as, but at the end of a free webinar today, Jim Womack shared a recent publication of his.  It looks pretty cool, and while it can be printed, has some videos that wouldn’t work well on paper.  Not sure if it’s accessible to the general public or if you […]