The whole and its parts

The whole & its parts

Tag: strategy

Doing your best

People will regularly suggest that one should do one’s best. It’s an interesting concept. How

It’s always a surprise

As much as we’d like it to be different, planning is independent of its outcome.

Foreground and background

As Ed Schein once explained, “Culture is telling you moment to moment what to do.”

Zooming out

An interesting aspect of goals is how one goal can serve other goals. It can

When people demand

Sometimes people can’t distinguish between a demand and something that is desired. As perception is

Developing a strategy

One of the things that takes time to learn when one learns to play golf

Getting it backward

Aiming for the outcome tends to leave the path leading there out of the picture.

Building a castle

Kings build castles, dictators build palaces, and bishops have cathedrals. It’s a metaphor. To display