Aligning Your Team
Alignment is like focus. It’s a business concept that’s easy to emphasize but difficult to attain. In the past I’ve written about how everyone likes to use the word “focus”… Continue Reading...
Everybody’s Doing It
I had to cancel my digital-only subscription recently to a major newspaper (I’ll call it the Main Street Journal) because the price wasn’t worth the short amount of time I… Continue Reading...
Your Bank Will Be Changing
I’ve been at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas this week, which is a financial industry trade show of epic proportions. It’s a show where thousands of payments geeks and… Continue Reading...
Beware Spurious Correlations
At some point you’ve likely heard the truism that “correlation does not imply causation”. It’s a phrase that reminds us that just because two data points line up, there isn’t… Continue Reading...
Thinking Beyond the Foosball Table
I sometimes wonder what a visitor from a typical mid-20th century work culture would think if he or she were to land in many companies today. Everything would look different… Continue Reading...
Preparing for Your Non-Linear Future
Here’s a joke I’ve enjoyed telling since I first heard it:
A data analyst is on board a passenger jet. The captain’s voice announced over the radio “We have lost… Continue Reading...
