T’was the very season in which most people slow their normal pace and scatter joy, as Emerson espoused, when I was frantically racing around the grocery store aisles. Muttering under my breath, “I need this, and I need this, oh and this…and oh yeah this…” I quickly found my arms filled with just one item too many, and more than I had come into the store to buy. I scrambled to the checkout counter when “SPLUNK” happened. Read More
Living in a city, I see diversity all around me every day. I strive to get to know people from varied cultural backgrounds and enjoy learning about their differences. At times this forces me into situations that are a bit outside of my comfort zone, but I realize that this is part of the learning process and is necessary to build better relationships. Read More
Sustainment of any process improvement is the real key to getting a return on our change investment. Sadly, this seldom occurs. We gather and organize information to justify our change effort. We explore options. We generate ideas for possible solutions. We decide on a course of action from among the possible strategies. We implement the changes. But then, the TASC wheel described by Wallace and Adams that contains these sensible steps grinds to a halt. Read More
With trending themes like mobile learning, leadership and sustaining successful initiatives, 2012 is definitely not going to be the year of little content! Read More
Ralph Boston, an Olympic athlete from the 1960s, said it right, “Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It’s what you do after you cross the line that really counts.” Read More
