It is so easy to find an app for every little convenience these days. Whether you’re looking for travel short-cuts, recipes, or simply games to pass the time. Search any topic on Apple or Android and you’ll find millions of them, most free or less than five dollars. Installing them Read more…
You probably know the feeling. You get up in the morning, get ready for the day and drive to the office. Then you sit down at your desk and brace yourself for the onslaught of messages needing to be cleared. You navigate the pop-ups, opt-ins and opt-outs, the unsubscribes, and Read more…
We’ve all been there countless times. A decision needs to be made and the uncertainly surrounding it has got us flummoxed. Maybe it’s a big purchase and we’re not sure it’s worth it. Perhaps the team is looking to us for guidance on how to proceed. Maybe we need to Read more…
Yuval Levin, writing in The Wall Street Journal recently, made the observation that, “To govern, at least at the level of the presidency, is to make hard choices among competing options with incomplete information.” While he was referring to the decisions made at the top of our political leadership, the Read more…
I am fond of reminding those in my audience that decisions don’t have answers. They have outcomes. In most cases, these outcomes will not be exactly what you are expecting. Even if you watch the sandwich artist make your cold cut combo at Subway, for instance, you may still end Read more…
The phrase, “knowledge is power” is commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon in the 1600’s. Regardless of its origin, some people interpret this statement as an entreatment to collect information for the purposes of building control and influence. After all, if you know it and someone else doesn’t, you have Read more…
Casey, a young colleague of mine, complained recently that her supervisor continually makes decisions about issues he has delegated to her. This includes such things as spending her budget and forgetting to tell her and making commitments on her time and letting her know after it’s already been scheduled. Since Read more…
