A study in inefficiency (or: Why outsourcing to cheap locations tend to take double the amount of time) During the fall break I took my kids to a week in the sun in Turkey. We went on an all-inclusive charter trip to Alanya with a really nice hotel complex, great pool situated right at the[…]
Triathlon is attracting more and more people everyday and is really growing into a really big sport. It’s has gone from “a few nutcases” to “that thing my bosses do on weekends” and during that time a trend has been emerging. Triathlon is taking the potential new members from the golf clubs. Why golf attracted[…]
I attended a try-out day for sports with my sons class today. These kids are in the third grade so they don’t always sit still and listen, or they mostly never do. That’s why the leaders ability to engage the group were tested to the maximum, and I took out my notebook. We were able[…]
I recently went to London with my family and we visited the Hamleys Toy Store there. The whole experience got me thinking about how you can affect your sales in a retail store since Hamleys have done a great job at that. Many store owners are struggeling with sales and profitabillity. Smaller shops are often[…]
Many managers struggle with how to get their teams more efficient and autonomous. Many managers are stuck in a micro management way of leading their teams and can never seem to get any leverage from the teams work. However bold strategies they set or however well planned their projects are they always have to be[…]
I’ve been taking my son to practice ice skating during the winter. The training is lead by different coaches every week and they are all very different. Some are teenagers from the local field hockey teams and some are older coaches for these teams. The group of kids range from 15-25 every week and the[…]
I hate email! Email is a medium that you’re not in control of. A person can send you an email with a task or something they want you to do even if you haven’t approved the task. The common view is that once you’ve sent the email, the task in it becomes the receivers problem.[…]
The multitasking brain is a myth. Well, not a myth entirely but it is a true myth that your brain can multitask more than one intellectual task at a time. Let me first explain my view on intellectual tasks and then get back to my point. Any task that needs more than 1% of your[…]
Many poeple are becoming slaves under their email and most of them can spend an entire work day just reading and answering mails. Most of them will also find themselves thinking “what did I really accomplish today” at the end of a work day? There are a number of reasons why email is enslaving entire[…]