As I pondered what to write about in my next book a whirlwind of titles and topics came to mind. After writing LiNK, a book about organizational effectiveness, I had planned a sequel that took the concepts a bit deeper, but that’s all changed now. My next book will be the subject of my blog [...]

The Law of Entanglements en·tan·gle (n-tnggl) tr.v. en·tan·gled, en·tan·gling, en·tan·gles 1. To involve in or as if in a tangle. Have you ever stopped for a moment to consider the entanglements you encounter on a given day merely by being an observer? Have you ever felt by watching, you ‘somehow’ mysteriously got involved in the [...]

Binocularity is the ability for both eyes to work in unison. It entails bringing unified focus on an object as it approaches, capturing the image, and sending signals back to the brain. This allows us to “see” clearly. This pivotal aspect of depth perception requires the two eyes to work in harmony as a team. [...]

How we perceive ourselves, and that of others can prime the mind’s pump, resulting in either productive or detrimental outcomes. Organizations generally tend to place great emphasis on things such as personality profiling and team structures while negating the very things that prime our minds to actions that yield sustainable and scalable results. And there [...]

It’s 5:30pm, you are settling down for dinner with friends—just an ordinary day. The weather is calm, a bit warm, but nothing unusual for the month of May. As you flip burgers on your backyard grille you notice dark storm clouds to the southwest; “better hurry up and get the grilling done before the rain [...]

Imagine spending over fifty years studying one thing—you would probably become really good at it. Well, Dr. Paul Ekman has done just that, and his topic? The human face. Dr. Ekman’s work is profound and has revealed incredible insight into how the amygdala of our brain processes what we “see” and then causes certain neurons [...]

It’s 5:30pm, your flight departs in 45 minutes and the line at the security checkpoint appears like the throngs waiting for a Justin Bieber concert.  Your heart races, you don’t think you’ll make your flight. As you finally near the machine, piling all of your belongings into those grey bins you expect the usual harsh [...]

Ok, we have elaborate systems of supply chain and distribution management and yet why is it that illiterate dabbawallas outperform us? The answer is contained in the following: Simplicity Loyalty and Trust Flat Organization (decentralized) Frequent Face-to-Face Meetings (they don’t text on phones while talking, or bombard themselves with mind numbing PowerPoint slides, they actually [...]

Imagine this feat, delivering food in small tins to 200,000 people everyday with an error rate of 1 in every 16,000,000 deliveries! No technology from anything in the last 100 years is used, (just a mere color-coding system), there is no paperwork and nearly all of the employees cannot read. Ok, got your attention? Welcome [...]

Ok, you may be hearing about this term called “The Conceptual Age” well, this week’s blog is all about what that really means. Look around you, the way we work has changed dramatically with the influx of high speed information, social networking, and a truly global economy. Blogger Sebastian Schmieg sums it up like this: [...]