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Also known as a Decision Record, as described by Russell Ackoff in many of his books. Another critical component to include in the Decision Record is not just the decision made, bu…

I worked with Ackoff. Brilliant man. An extremely important video to watch: https://vimeo.com/148192220 29 minutes is a tiny investment for the returns.

This would be a great time to see this obituary of John Karlin, one of the early phone UX pioneers: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/business/john-e-karlin-wh...

My experience has been that almost all of our remote jobs were occupied by existing local employees who needed to become remote for various personal reasons. Only those that were m…

Smalltalk is still a thing of beauty.

I met Dr. Coase at a small meeting/conference that a consulting firm put together for its clients back in the mid-nineties. It was my first encounter to his thinking, and it was tr…

Another thing I just remembered on this topic of what "focuses" you, there is a clever and interesting way to learn which of the three forms keeps someone else focused. It is in ho…

Around 20 years ago, I met Dawna Markova at a conference where she spoke about the work she had done in learning styles. My recollection is that the Visual, Auditory and Kinestheti…