This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
New Book on TOC for Service Businesses -- I'll be interested in this one -- supposed to be available at the end of September.
However, success isn't the only thing you'll find in the details. You'll also find stagnation, disagreement, meetings, and delays. These things can kill morale and lower your chances of success...
...and that getting bogged down in the details too early in a project can be distracting and debilitating. When planning, it's better to work top down, with less details defined the further out in the project, since they'll probably change anyhow.
Once in the throes of the execution. you need to step back from the details every once in a while to get the big picture, the context, and an understanding of how your details fit together with others.
While the "devil's in the details," songwriter Paul Simon points out that "there are angels in the architecture."
Monday Amusement: What Back Seat? -- Was perusing Worse Than Failure, a site devoted to errors, snafus, and general IT/Development humor, when I came across this image...
Thought it was one of their entries, then noticed the ad was live.
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Friday, September 07, 2007
Learning Lessons -- Good point...
We need to be learning lessons continuously, not documenting lessons learnt. -- Dave Snowden
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