What prevented you from having a perfect day?
Jack Welch famously quipped, “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” Out of the original fortune 500 companies, a list compiled in 1955,...
Show up at work and at home
“Kim, in that presentation you said ‘um’ every third word. It makes you sound stupid.” It hit Kim right between the eyes. And it was exactly what she needed to truly hear. It would have been much...
Do you have a radically candid organization?
“Kim, in that presentation you said ‘um’ every third word. It makes you sound stupid.” It hit Kim right between the eyes. And it was exactly what she needed to truly hear. It would have been much...
Five more learnings from Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia
Picking up where we left off in our last post , Yvon Chouinard, the founder and owner of Patigona, wrote a book on his unique management philosophy, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a...
Five learnings from Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia
At Symplicity Designs and Sympli Works, we are big fans of Patagonia, Inc., a world-renowned outdoor clothing company. Patagonia is more than environmentally conscious; Patagonia’s mission is to...
The secret to success: Differentiating IN and ON work
Take a look at your daily tasks. Are you spending more time planning tomorrow’s innovations or solving yesterday’s problems? Consider this example: From 1942 to 1944, the Boeing Company pulled off...