Aug 20, 2010 0
Four Minute Men
I hadn’t heard the story of the “Four Minute Men,” a group of 75,000 volunteers during World War I. What did the Four Minute Men do?
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Aug 5, 2010 0
Four Great Questions
Kevin Hoffman has an article this month in A List Apart that contains a lot of common sense dos and don’ts for kick-off meetings. Many of his suggestions are simple, and reflect standards that we hold ourselves too.
He provides four sample questions that are well worth remembering for a kick-off meeting:
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Achieving Simplicity
There are two ways to achieve simplicity. One is to do without. The other is to simplify a complicated problem until you arrive at a spare, elegant solution.
The first approach achieves the appearance of simplicity by shoving complexity into places where it is unmanaged or poorly managed. It’s a form of denial. That sounds bad, but simplicity by denial is often the most efficient solution. It achieves a good outcome without the cost involved in optimization.
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