This past Sunday, I marveled at one 60 Minutes television segment called The unlikely, eccentric inventor turning inedible plant life into fuel for many reasons: Marshall Medoff, despite having no scientific background, set out to solve a scientific problem that has eluded scientists across the globe for a very long Read more…
Here are 2 things that caught my attention this past week: How superior collaboration led to the safe rescue of the Thai soccer team The sportsmanship displayed at the FIFA world cup finals Collaboration: The Thai soccer team rescue was due to incredible collaboration by some 900 rescuers. It Read more…
A simple Google search for the word “par” reveals, “the number of strokes a first-class player should normally require for a particular hole or course.” For example, a par five would be completed with 5 strokes to make par on a par five hole. This definition reveals why I’m far from Read more…
…is a product data sheet. I learned this when I was employed by National Semiconductor Computer Products Group. Every month, we’d have to go beg Floyd Kvamme, General Manager of Semiconductor Operations, to sign purchase orders for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips from “competing” manufacturers like Intel and/or a Read more…
I love the sound of a big V8 engine. This past week, I encountered a high-performance “muscle car”—a relic of the 60s and 70s—as as I drove home just before sunset. It was a Pontiac G.T.O., a car with a 400 horsepower V8 engine and a throaty exhaust system. They Read more…
In Dell’s 2017 Report to Customers, Dell Technologies opens with the following thought: “One year ago, we created a unique family of businesses 100-percent focused on accelerating customer successes further and faster. In our annual report to you, our customers, we celebrate your success and thank you for allowing us Read more…
This is a fascinating video about America’s attempt to design and commercialize a supersonic aircraft to compete with the Concorde. There are many technical challenges that Boeing adopted that undermined the project. Some good lessons here.
In an article I authored for FastCompany.com called How Much Experience Do You Have?, I quoted my then CEO, Harold Pinto, who offered: “Someone who repeats the same year of their life fifteen times doesn’t have 15 years of experience; they have one year of experience repeated fifteen times.” Employees Read more…
When I consulted for a Fortune 50 company, I noticed the constant bombardment of emails to the sales team from the marketing team. The incoming emails had to feel like incoming missiles to be dodged on a daily basis. Oh, sure, they had the engineering specs, the use cases, customer Read more…
People diagnosed with certain serious medical maladies today are lucky that they weren’t diagnosed 5, 10 or 20 years ago. Why? Innovation. Constant innovation in medicine promotes better patient outcomes than were possible 5, 10 or 20 years ago. Constant innovation means Not settling for treatments that have a certain Read more…