Freakonomics has a great interview with Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors that provides some insights into what it means to lead and what it takes to innovate. Sometimes, it’s as simple as moving barriers out of the way....
From the outside looking in, it is easy to think that innovation is about the technology. One important lesson I’ve learned over the last decade is that more often than not, innovation is about business and process models which enable...
I came across an article on McDonald’s plans to make their drive-thrus faster: McDonald’s has already made improvement in its drive-thrus. Over the past few years, it’s sped up the drive-thru line by about 30 seconds, thanks in part to...
I’ve written before about the multitude of ways that teams end up failing themselves. In The Math of Mediocrity, I explored how we temper our expectations of excellence when our wildest ideas and imagination meet the molasses of reality. In...
Perhaps I’ve been swept up by the greater trend towards minimalism. There is of course the Tiny House movement which runs counter to decades of ever larger McMansions; rather then focusing on sheer volume, the Tiny House movement focuses on...
I was reflecting with a previous collaborator recently on the product I am working on now. The team I lead is a small team of only 4 engineers. Yet the product we’ve developed transacts upwards of a million documents a...
I have previously blogged on my affinity for LinkedIn Recruiter for hiring. It puzzles me that even as the modern workforce evolves and we see greater acceptance of remote work, LinkedIn still insists on a fixed geographic location for...
The California Sunday magazine has a great writeup on the tenure of Jerry Brown. It’s a great read. There were two points that struck me in particular as with regards to managing projects and getting stuff done. The first is:...
I recently conducted an interview for a managerial position and one question I wish I had asked was “Describe a day in the life of this role”. I thought of this later as I was driving, but I really like...
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of discussion with various folks on my thoughts on the future of the automotive industry. Within the next 10 years, we will see a huge transformation in the industry and how consumers use cars....