Powerful 10 min. Dan Pink video about Finding Your Life's Purpose
Daniel Pink recently posted a great 10-minute video about finding your life's purpose with some great suggestions, several of which I haven't heard before:
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Knowledge Management Isn't a Tool — It's a System Design Decision You Keep Making by Default
BLUF/Summary Most leaders treat knowledge management as a software selection problem. They debate Confluence versus Notion versus SharePoint, pick one, roll it out, and wonder six months later why nobody is using it and the organization still runs on tribal knowledge. The tool was never the problem. Knowledge management
From Strategy to Sprint: Why Most Goals Die in the Gap Between Vision and This Week's Work
BLUF/Summary Your organization probably has a strategy. It might even have an operating cadence: recurring meetings where leaders review progress. But can you take any strategic goal and trace it, through a visible chain, down to a specific task that a specific person is working on this week? And
Scaling to 500 People and Selling the Company: What I'd Do Again and What I'd Do Sooner
BLUF/Summary I spent thirteen years helping build a government technology company from a small services firm to over 500 employees, serving in roles from COO to CTO to CIO/CISO, before the company was acquired by SAIC in 2021. The company was valuable for many reasons — strong client relationships,
The Friday 3pm Rule: How a Simple Weekly Email Transformed Accountability Across 500 People
BLUF/Summary For years, we ran a weekly system where every person in a 500-person organization published top five priorities for the coming week, reported progress against last week's five, and shared client feedback and good news, all in a single email sent every Friday by 3pm. No