8 Stages of Personal and Team Growth
D. Brown Management
May 3, 2020
Exploration expands our context. Learning and deliberate practice builds and demonstrates our individual productivity. Develop team productivity with four levels of leveraging yourself through others. Take an inventory of where you and your team are at.
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10 Jugs of Wine - A Tale from Japan
D. Brown Management
April 30, 2020
Diffusion of personal responsibility can occur quickly on teams. Everyone must contribute. This is a simple tale from Japan that elegantly illustrates the point and includes how people react even when the failed results are clear.
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Feeling Safe and Being Safe
D. Brown Management
April 29, 2020
These are not the same. Both must be managed. Know which of your actions contribute to each and to what degree. Know that your actions may be interpreted dramatically differently by different people.
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The Cost of Specializaton
D. Brown Management
April 24, 2020
Learn the right balance between specialists and generalists. Specialization is great and is what has allowed all of us to continually experience improved lives for generations. However, when taken too far, specialization can become a liability.
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Always Do the Math and Build Your Own Models
D. Brown Management
April 23, 2020
You will learn more in the process of building and refining your own models than you will in just reading 1,000 headlines. How much time do you spend developing your own models as a mechanism to learn?
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Average is Rare and Rarely Valuable
D. Brown Management
April 23, 2020
Study the differences between the varying levels of performance and work to close those gaps. Seeing how the average is trending can be very valuable to visualizing the trajectory, and that goes for every element on a Contractor's Scoreboard.
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If a Problem is Worth Solving, It's Worth Solving All the Way
D. Brown Management
April 23, 2020
Not all problems are created equal and not all problems are even worth solving. When they are; be aggressive in solving them so they never come up again. Remember that 90% of continuous improvement is just about eliminating problems consistently.
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Deliberately Building Your Perfect Life
D. Brown Management
April 22, 2020
What did you do today to improve your value-add and do more of what you love? The foundation of all sustainably growing contractors is a team with each person individually strong, sharing common values, and aligned around a common purpose.
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The Basic Math of Prioritization
D. Brown Management
April 21, 2020
Build your project, career, and business more profitably by continually allocating more of your resources to their "Highest & Best" use, focusing on prioritized probabilities rather than possibilities.
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Creative Adaptability as a Company Culture and Capability
D. Brown Management
April 20, 2020
Ensure that your business and career thrives in the current COVID shutdown and in the likely post-COVID recession. Be like Batman and build yourself into who you need to be in order to thrive in all situations.
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