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What is Action Debt?

What is Action Debt?

On LinkedIn this morning, I saw another post about thinking vs. acting. It stressed the point that is important to move beyond thinking. Results don’t happen until we move beyond thinking. This is one hundred percent correct, but acting on that fact alone may...
We Know More Than Me

We Know More Than Me

We and me overlap at times and not at others. We each need me time, but every me has a need of we time also. It is not always something that happens, but both needs are real. A few years back, as a senior software developer and application architect, I sat down with a...
Why Franchises Work

Why Franchises Work

If you open a business and it grows, perhaps you may want to open another location. If you manage all the locations, things are not going to work as well. Wait, that mindset holds to a legacy concept that all business is physical. Today many online businesses have no...
Beware of False Charity

Beware of False Charity

When our children were growing up, one of the common excuses for misbehaving was, “I’m just playing.” We would tell them, oh. We want to play too. You can play like you are being bad if we can play like we are parents of bad children. We want you to...
Career Seeking Paradox

Career Seeking Paradox

What is a career? We are going to talk about technology careers here since this is from Business of Technology. In technology, careers are evolving, and while most aspects of a career are similar, the changes are significant. We are all sure the future is certain....
Agile Finds a New Home

Agile Finds a New Home

Thinking is a bit like driving, running, or other physical activities. When we get moving in a certain direction, it is challenging to shift our focus. Here is the paradox. Agile has been a kind of thinking and work process long enough to block agile thinking. Our...
COVID Killed the Raspberry Pi

COVID Killed the Raspberry Pi

No, it isn’t dead, but it isn’t what it was either. There were things coming together that would have made it very popular. Due to the impact of COVID, we saw it miss very popular and fall from popular to noteworthy. Let’s take a look at it like a...
Modern is Mostly Temporary

Modern is Mostly Temporary

We credit Thomas Edison for creating the light bulb; you know, we cannot buy the type his team created anymore because they are outdated. Or perhaps we cite the invention of the wheel as moving humanity forward, but the wheel is no longer the wheel the inventor...
Stronger than State of the Art

Stronger than State of the Art

There is a critical difference between focusing on opportunities and being distracted. Good opportunities can cause us to lose focus on our market mix and our core customers. There is a time to pivot, and there is a time to avoid pivoting. So this leads us to the...