Posts Tagged ‘managers’

October 19, 2020

October 19, 2020

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Strategy as Tires: We are down to a month before the shutdown. Your managers and mentors will be in touch. You know how it goes. What do you want to do next year? What will your company and departments need from you? What will you need from you?
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5:06
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Strategy as Tires: We will continue to staff the horizontal cloud. And, we will add another lane to the bowling alley. A lot of companies will be improving new processes.
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5:07
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Strategy as Tires: Who do you want to be ten years from now? How can we help you get there.?
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5:09
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Strategy as Tires: This is the week to think about those things. The annual holiday shutdown involves a lot of moving parts. We get all that ready in the coming month.











October 10, 2020

October 10, 2020

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Strategy as Tires: What can we do to amplify that attitude? What do managers do to dampen that attitude?
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Strategy as Tires: We are one big signal processor. Most of our signals are for our own internal consumption. Attitude is a signal.
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11:09
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Strategy as Tires: Without a simple straightforward explanation of the source of holes and asymptotes, we could believe that they come from the equation. But, the equation came from data.
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11:14
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Strategy as Tires: Explanations change. When you add a deeper layer, explanations become deeper long before that depth shows up in the classroom.
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11:23
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Strategy as Tires: Yes, you can work at the current depth. Yes, discontinuous innovation is about a new explanation, a new theory, new constraints, and new parameters. But, your jobs to be done don’t change. Yes, you might engage with those new constraints, and that might make you think differently.
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11:25
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Strategy as Tires: We have to migrate the existing conceptual model in the software. Then, we have to migrate the user’s conceptual model. It might be a long process. When the work gets deeper, so do the economic payoffs. That problem with that one step in the job finally goes away.
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11:30
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Strategy as Tires: Yes, you don’t have to do that anymore under the new theory.











August 12, 2020

August 12, 2020

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Strategy as Tires: Please give those helping you clear and complete instructions.
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15:18
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Strategy as Tires: During the pandemic, everything takes longer. And, mistakes and delays will multiply. Patience and politeness will help.
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15:20
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Strategy as Tires: Use our various staffers. They have been there. Call HR when you need some help. Your manager knows how to find you the help you need. You are not alone.
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15:23
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Strategy as Tires: Asking for help is hard. All of you have explored that problem in your various HR classes. Yes, it is the hardest soft skill.
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15:26
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Strategy as Tires: If you need more contact during your shelter at home service, let me know.
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15:30
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Strategy as Tires: Masks and hand sanitizer are available at the stores now. Your HSA covers them. Get what you need. No excuses.
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15:31
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Strategy as Tires: Care for strangers. Say hello in passing.
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15:32
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Strategy as Tires: Be more personable in your code.
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15:33
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Strategy as Tires: The stores seem to be out of things again. If there are things you cannot find, let our logistics people know.
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15:35
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Strategy as Tires:  Have a great day. Thank you for your efforts.