When I was a young process engineer, I was tasked to build a spreadsheet to help optimize a chemical plant. The spreadsheet was done quickly, but I was so enthusiastic that I decided to extend my efforts and build a state-of-the-art […]
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Peeling potatoes is hard work. Since we were eating potatoes frequently when I was growing up, we were naturally interested in a new invention: The Magic Potato Peeling Machine. We bought the machine and what looked great on paper was much […]
If you don’t have your own goals, you will be working for the goals of someone else. We still have seven months to go in 2023: It’s a good time to step back and take a look at your goals for […]
The average human has one breast and one testicle. The average human also does not exist in real life. Be careful with blindly using averages to interpret data. A great pen and nice paper inspires me to write. I therefore […]
In the past decade I have facilitated workshops with hundreds of groups, ranging from three to three thousand people. These are some of the best facilitation practices I use to make most out of these sessions: 1/ Start with discussing with the group […]
When I was a student of statistics, I was told that outliers should be discarded. Now that I’m a student of high-performance, I realize that outliers are the only things which really matter. Recently, the CTO of Microsoft explained in […]
During a press conference, soccer super star Ronaldo visibly put aside two bottles of Coca-Cola-one of the main sponsors of the soccer event-and replaced them with water bottles. Many in the press reported a Coca-Cola stock price decline as a […]
Last week I gave a keynote about high-performance leadership in a virtual setting. While preparing the talk I realized that the virtual space increases focus, yet sacrifices context. Think of reading an email-a virtual communication-which is textually clear, but is still confusing […]
The size of your funeral will be determined by the weather. For many, this realization is both disheartening and sobering. Our natural tendency is to think we matter, which explains why the words why, meaning, and legacy have recently become an important part of […]
‘What’s vacuum?’ When my daughter asked this simple question, I struggled to give a coherent answer. Then I realized that vacuum is defined by the absence of matter. It struck me that in many instances the best way to describe something […]
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