Email Overload Kills Productivity

by | Dec 26, 2007 | Business

After years of naming a product or person of the year, Basex Inc. decided to name “information overload” as problem of the year for 2007.   The named primary culprit of information overload is email. Email is responsible for millions of lost work...

Get Back in the Box

by | Dec 21, 2007 | Business

Get back in the box!   It’s time to stop thinking outside of the box. Yes indeed, it’s time to get back into the box and do some serious thinking.   Thinking inside the box used to mean restraining creativity with the limitations of...

Change Things If This Applies to Your Business

by | Dec 20, 2007 | Business

I give Dilbert full credit for summarizing what would take me 3 hours to write. No image is necessary.   “Why does it seem as if most of the decisions in my workplace are made by drunken lemurs?”   “Decisions are made by people who have...

A Mixed Bag of Metaphors

by | Dec 19, 2007 | Business

What’s the oulook of your crop?   Is the direction of your business set by a surgeon? Fire him and get a farmer.   Anyone who has had a doctor explain a medical condition to them almost always follows up with the request for a plain...

A Pair o’ Docs

by | Dec 17, 2007 | Business

Two physicians are not a paradox.   I would like to point out some interesting pardoxes.   From reading my Blog, you know I consult to businesses. In my years of working with hundreds of companies, I’ve discovered some disturbing patterns. These...