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What is the Question?
This post introduces a recent essay on mobilizing teams and making decisions during difficult times.
When faced with ambiguity and uncertainty, we seek solid ground for making decisions. For novel and contentious issues, following ...
Managers Manage Well, Even During Pandemics
In my roles as a business advisor and as a team leader, I have the opportunity to continually discuss and test ideas on managing and making decisions, especially in turbulent times. The intensity and urgency of these conversations ...
Leaders Plan and Communicate Expectations
In college at MIT, I played baseball for Coach Fran O’Brien. MIT hired Coach O’Brien in 1969. In the twenty seasons prior to Coach O’Brien’s arrival, MIT Baseball had one winning season. He inherited a Division-III, no scholarship, no ...
Mystery Tribune Publishes “Tour De Forest”
Mystery Tribune, a magazine of fiction, non-fiction, art and photography that celebrates mystery and suspense, just published my story “Tour De Forest” (910 words; 4 minute read).
In this story, Philippe, a rising competitive ...
Thinking Through Risk and Uncertainty: Contemplating the Coronavirus
“Without a structured approach to ordering the world, the world will impose its views on us. The fact is some things are more important than others, some things are easily verifiable…Simple processes help us sort the mess and ...
Stories 2019: How Did It Go?
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing and then posted a 2018 update. How did it go this past year?
In 2019, I submitted versions and revisions of 33 stories 111 times to 49 different outlets. ...
Managing Risk by Screening Out Trouble
My work as a researcher in forestry sometimes highlights ideas relevant to developing plans or managing risk in other industries. For example, it helps to have a simple screening and ranking process. Without a structured approach ...
Stories 2018: How Did It Go?
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing in earnest. So, how did it go this past year?
In 2018, I submitted versions of 33 stories 76 times to 33 different outlets. This included 12 contests.By December ...
Communicating in Public: How to Prepare and Deliver a Wedding Toast
Since clipping on my first tie as a child, I’ve sat through many a wedding speech. Unfortunately, most memorable speeches and toasts carved out mental real estate in my head for the wrong reasons: they went awry or too long or ...
The Most Important Person on the Team
Who is the most important person on your team? As much as we’re “all created equal,” we join and work with teams comprised of higher performers and lower performers. Some salespeople exceed quota; others struggle to keep up. In ...
6th Edition of “Forest Finance Simplified” Now Available!
Forisk Press recently published the 6th Edition of the Forest Finance Simplified book by Dr. Brooks Mendell
Forest Finance Simplified distills forest finance themes into a question-and-answer format for those who want an ...
Stories 2017: How Did It Go?
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing in earnest. How did it go?
From August through December, I submitted versions of 11 stories 23 times to 13 different outlets. By December 31, I pocketed 14 rejections ...
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