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Don’t Automate Yet.
It's better to understand and eliminate than automate that which does not need to be automated.
Give Away Information, Build Familiarity
Create once, sell twice
Create a Skunk Team
Excerpt from The Pocket Guide to Making Stuff Better When an organization gets large, it often, by necessity, becomes bogged down by the requirements to keep itself moving. Too much red tape, too many people to talk to, or too…
The Pocket Guide to Writing a Resume
Full document available for purchase here Intro Hello and welcome. I'm Quinn Hanson. Thanks for being here. This document is meant to be one piece in a series of resources for those looking to stand out in their job search.…
Meditation Benefits for Professionals
Most of us have a certain set of beliefs that we have adopted over time, unconsciously, from our parents, teachers, friends, co workers, roommates, or others we spend time around. We do this without really identifying why. We end up…
Seven Deadly Wastes
Taiichi Ohno defined the seven biggest sources of waste as an engineer at Toyota more than 40 years ago. These wastes were responsible be for the majority of issues that arose in the business. These wastes still cause time, money,…
An intro to Lean Organizations
The term lean was coined in a 1988 article titled Triumph of the Lean Production System, written by John Krafcik. Lean, being a reference to having no fat, or nothing extra, is a methodology that aims to improve the output…
Time to Leave the Barbershop
The assumption we tend to make is that bad kids will influence good kids into doing bad things (same goes for adults).
Understand Before Automating
Automation has been all the hype for over a decade now. Millions of jobs are predicted to be automated away thanks to advanced robotics, more capable software, and more computing power becoming available every minute. Automation, though, is not a…