Category Archives: Management
Business Book Review: Work the System by Sam Carpenter
Work the System: the Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less by Sam Carpenter landed in my lap at a very fortuitous time. I was already knee-deep in one of those “what am I doing with my life” phases, …
The Lean Startup
As a proponent and consultant in Lean Office methodology, I (as you can imagine) thrill when a book effectively captures the essence of Lean and the power of its implementation. The Lean Startup authored by Eric Ries does just that. Now …
In Praise of Inertia
Newton’s Law states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Inertia tends to get a bad rap. People equate it with laziness. And if you’ve ever read the Bhagavad-Gita, you know that you definitely don’t want to be …
Failure Is Simply The Opportunity To Begin Again
You may recognize the quote credited to Henry Ford which, in its entirety reads “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” How common it is for most of us, (myself included), to fail to recognize …
