by Jeff Price | Dec 10, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Crisis provides clarity. Crisis reveals character. Crisis shows who is going to step up. A can also either destroy a business, or it can burn away the underbrush of a bloated and listless organization, leaving fertile ground for a new organization to emerge. To handle...
by Jeff Price | Dec 7, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Going through the facilitation training to become certified to train Franklin Covey’s leadership module series plus my time in the workforce has given me the opportunity to observe a lot of management strategies meant to increase efficiencies and provide a...
by Jeff Price | Dec 5, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
For a short period of time I employed a millennial. Frustrated the hell out of me! But, I learned something very valuable. At one point I had asked her to sit in on a seminar at a conference and take notes. I was at the same conference but was sitting in on another...
by Jeff Price | Nov 11, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
One of the best checklist makers in the world are airplane manufacturers. Pilots use dozens of checklists, whole books of them in fact. There’s a checklist for inspecting the aircraft before flight, one for configuring the airplane before you start the engines,...
by Jeff Price | Nov 9, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
I think most people understand the basic concept of the checklist. Find a process that needs to be done – write it down. Check it off as you go. But the problem is understanding when you need a checklist and what needs to go on it (not every step is always...
by Jeff Price | Nov 7, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Shortly after airplanes started flying, airplanes started crashing. This is of course generally seen as a bad thing and soon the term “pilot error,” would enter our cultural vernacular and never go away (Gawande 32-33). Flying a simple aircraft is actually...
