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Sport vs Business (2) – Time Out
We need to finish this by the end of the week! oh, gosh, on Friday we also have to start the X project as we have a tight deadline. And we received a new request, we have to send the proposal tomorrow. If we get it, we might have to start the project next week as well. And so on, we keep things rolling. We get the money coming and business is good! Or is it? Are we on the right track? Are others doing something different, coming up with new ideas to solve same problems? Are new problems emerging? New expectations on the client/customer side? These kind of questions…
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The life journey
Analogies to journeys are so frequent it’s almost ridiculous to continue using them in any sort of examples. However, it is the first one that popped up in my mind when thinking about a person’s life “agenda”. When you are young, it feels like being in the first day of a 2weeks vacation. You are excited about it, you plan ahead (or not?), you think you will do this and that! You will visit a lot of things, experience a lot, eat various cuisine, relax, read, socialize, meet new people, get tanned, ski, swim or walk, take pictures and so many others. The more you get to the return date,…
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Sport vs Business (1): Do you trust your fluffy PT?
Quite a lot of people go to gyms. Many opt for having personal trainers to guide them through the maze of excercises and techniques. PTs are fit guys, men or women, aspirational for those they train. They convey trust through personal example, they impose expertise in what they teach. It’s the same with the ski instructor, with the tennis or football coaches, with the martial arts sensei…If I went to the gym and a round guy comes to me attepting to teach me what to do to lose weight, to improve my shapes, preaching how impotant being athletic is for the way we live and perceive ourselves, well… I would…
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Unlearning to learn
Society is changing.It was always changing. I guess each generation had its wows, its disruptions. The past seems cute and relatively quiet, watched from today.However, GenX (or let’s call them the current adults) could mention in their time some quite amazing steps were taken, such as the PCs (believe it or not, they are not so “old school”, this is quite a recent product), the Internet and even the emergence of mobile telephony (do you remember the pagers?). Even CDs or digital photography may be mentioned, and probably so many, many more…. Our grandparents, well, they did not have all that. However, they started the television. Not a small thing,…
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Spreadsheets and intuitions
I capture signs of an emerging trend. A game changer, if I may…It is definitely not the only one, it’s just the one I picked up for this short writing 🙂 A little bit of context…Math and the rest of hard sciences were so exact. Most people even today label them as exact. However, we know that about a century ago, perspectives started to shift. We have probabilities, we have uncertainties, at the very core of these sciences. Maybe current school curricula does not properly emphasize these developements, probably being to recent for the pace this system adapts to new realities. Hard sciences face a stronger counter-balance movement from the…