The MoPOP Disney Heroes & Villains exhibit: Last week, I was privileged to join other journalists and writers at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture to preview the touring display of Disney costumes originally shown at D23. For Serious Insights, I concentrate on logistics and design. As suspected, project management, IT, and some very diligent task management. Here is what I … [Read more...] about Disney Heroes & Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume is Not Just Window Dressing at Seattle’s MoPOP
Management
Scenario Planning and Agility: The Case for Scenarios In an Uncertain World
Scenario Planning and Agility: The Case for Scenarios In an Uncertain World Scenario planning and agility. Too often, managers and leaders focus on how to control the near-term. They don't take the time to consider if what they prioritize as important today, will be useful, valuable, or applicable to some future state of the organization. As soon as the future comes up … [Read more...] about Scenario Planning and Agility: The Case for Scenarios In an Uncertain World
Why Best Practices Suck
 Photo by 100 files on Pexels.com Why Best Practices Suck: Best practices are like vampires: They can suck the life out of an organization, kill its productivity, drain its creativity, and bleed its initiative. If you seek perfection in perpetuity, your organization’s learning apparatus will become an animated corpse cursed through the ages to feed on its ancestors. Every … [Read more...] about Why Best Practices Suck
Technology Lock-in: How 20th Century Technology Keeps Small and Medium Businesses from Joining the 21st Century
Technology lock-in... “We can do this because we have technology to manipulate matter right down to the molecular level. This is an extraordinary ability, think of it! And yet some of us here can accept transforming the entire physical reality of this planet, without doing a single thing to change ourselves, or the way we live. To be twenty-first-century scientists on Mars, … [Read more...] about Technology Lock-in: How 20th Century Technology Keeps Small and Medium Businesses from Joining the 21st Century
What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery
Be it Angry Birds or Galaga, Fallout or Call of Duty, knowing what good likes like is pretty easy. You gain an achievement, rack up three stars or land on a leaderboard. In the pre-social gaming days, it was a local leaderboard, the one on the game you were playing at Shakey’s Pizza during lunch from your sys op job on a HP 3000. Today your achievements are splattered across … [Read more...] about What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery