Posts Tagged ‘human behavior’

The Art of Deciding What Not to Decide

The world is filled with decision makers. The ability to make decisions is touted as a skill and requirement to move ahead, to get things done, to lead others into movement and action. And no, it’s not the ability to make any decision that is celebrated. It’s those that can quickly and smartly evaluate the options in front of them, layer in expertise and insights and take action; set the course. We are praised for forward thinking, understanding the cause and effect of our choices and basing decisions on immediate return and mitigation of long term rework. It’s smart.

But what happens when there are more decisions, more forks in the road than road itself? Sometimes not making a decision is the best decision.

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Leadership in times of trouble, or tornados.

Leadership is hard to find. It’s not that it’s not out there, but true mentor worthy leadership is rare. Why is that? Where does it fall down? I discuss some of my thoughts here in my first video blog post.

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WWW stands for Why, Who, Where

None other than Ralph Waldo Emerson is said to have coined the phrase “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” This metaphor about the power of innovation has stood the test of time, but I wonder if it’s showing some serious post digital threads.

The brief history of digital has pretty much been about building better mousetraps. One-off sites that marketeers either drove users to via paid media and SEO. But isn’t it about time we started using it as a web instead of a mousetrap?

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Putting the Human Back in Humanity

There’s been talk about a shift in sentiment that has been evolving over what seems to be just the last few months. A backlash if you will against the thinking surrounding social media and the focus on implementation tactics. A level of frustration with the trepidation, nervousness and overarching reluctance to embrace social media for a fear of “doing it wrong.” I have a thought a lot about this. And it goes a bit beyond embracing a new channel. I think the core issue is deeply rooted—more than we want to admit. Because I see social media’s influence going way beyond a marketing or engagement tool. It’s actually working towards putting the human back into humanity.

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Overcoming Creativity

Over the last several months I’ve been participating in a discussion group (IRL… can you believe that?) centered on the topic of removing roadblocks of our individual creativity. It’s been a fascinating journey to say the least. Not only is the subject of creativity wide open for interpretation, but openly facing how you might be sabotaging yourself in the manner can be a bit eye-opening. Nonetheless, I delved into the cerebral examination of what creativity actually is, and is not, and have landed on a few key descriptors…

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