The Secret to Enjoying Your Work
Boring work is bad work. It’s bad for the company and for the employee. When people get bored, they dream about the grass on the other side. Their productivity decreases; they become dissatisfied with their work, and things start to spiral steadily downward. Today, people stay at jobs for less time than ever, and more of them are [...]
The Simple Reason Most Vision Statements Suck
Most vision statements are useless. It’s not because vision statements are “bad.” Instead it’s because they rarely stand for anything. Where most vision statements fail is that they don’t acknowledge a basic rule of writing. They rely on worn out cliches and phrases. They feel generic and insipid. In short, they’re the epitome of bad [...]
Monday Reading: Start Your Week Off Right
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Why The Neapolitan Pizza Is Regaining Popularity (And What You Can Learn From It)
Users enjoy having options, but there’s also such a thing as too many choices. Sometimes maintaining a higher standard design is made significantly easier simply by reducing the options to only the appropriate choices, eliminating the opportunities for bad decisions. In the early days of the American pizza industry, the pizza market was dominated by [...]
The 5 Whys — The Simplest Way to Get to the Root of any Problem
Toyota is famous for their production process. They designed a system that eliminated waste, stress and inconsistency to levels that were previously considered implausible. Books have been written on the process. But, what isn’t well known is that their paradigm-shifting production process was based on a very simple insight originally developed by Sakichi Toyoda. Sakichi [...]