On Creativity and Management
Creativity is vaguely defined on purpose. Too rigid of a definition would deflate the meaning entirely. Similarly, management is a loosely defined title (or set of responsibilities) within most companies. It follows, then, that the creative manager, one who can accomplish intended goals in non-obvious ways, is not going to have a single playbook that…
Train the Whole Team to Hire Well
Most hiring managers suck at hiring. We could do much better.
Document Processes With Spaghetti Diagrams
Improve work flows with spaghetti diagrams
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 many layers of control slow down the progress that could be made. To combat the…
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. From conducting a job search to resume building and interview prep, there is a lot…
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 operating with a set of default thoughts about the world, influenced by those around us.…
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, and resources to be used poorly today. When it’s time to increase margins, lower costs,…
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 of a process by removing waste (or muda in Japanese). In the context of lean,…
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