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I’m stuck in the startup phase of my marketing research business. I’m on the lookout for decision making tools that can help me clarify my strategy. I remembered the Six thinking hats exercise. Have you ever used it? What approach do you use to look at a decision from all sides? I used to teach…
Is faster really better? There’s a joke there, but I’ll ignore it and just reply, “It depends.” Faster can be better when we are talking about connecting to a client via cell phone, or receiving a doctor’s diagnosis, or shopping for the cheapest flight from Portland to Phoenix. I don’t want to wait any more…
As a marketer and small business owner, I have to make a lot of decisions. Sometimes the decisions are easy, or easier, like should I have a website or not, or should I blog or not… actually, now that I think about it, those decisions weren’t really all that easy to make. When I stop…
Here’s something I hadn’t really thought much about. I always thought I was a pretty competent decision maker. I know some people have trouble making decisions. And it isn’t surprising to me that change efforts may stall because we avoid making decisions. This is because the decisions we must make often involve trade-offs: In order…
We always hope that our employees are all working together to make our workplace better. But sometimes they don’t all seem to be rowing in the same direction. One or two employees seem to be paddling away from the mothership. What is up with that? Heather Huhman of Come Recommended wrote a Huffington Post article…
Did you know that the words management and manipulation come from the same Latin word stem, man? You probably know that the Latin word manus means hand, but have you ever thought about how management and manipulation are related in the workplace? When I think of the word management, I feel a sense of empowerment…