I heard of this recently, and even if it is apocryphal, I love it. The Hudson Bay Company was created in 1670 and operated an enormous trapping and trading business all across North America. Their business was life or death; teams of trappers would leave HBC headquarters and travel for months in the wilderness trapping, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
The Hudson Bay Start
Posted in problem solving on August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Solving Big Problems: Get Some Ideas
Posted in problem solving, tagged brainstorming, management, problem solving on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teams, groups, and companies are organic networks. When trying to make a Big Important Change, spot problem solving is about as effective as acne cream on a third degree burn. Addressing an organizational issue with a quick tactical fix just moves the problem somewhere else. Often that somewhere else is even more difficult or more [...]
Blue Racecar
Posted in entertainment, family life on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In 2008 I bought a blue hatchback. My daughter immediately started referring to it as Daddy’s Blue Racecar. She’d tell people she met about my blue racecar. She’d see other people with cars she thought look liked racecars and tell them we have a racecar too – just blue. She really liked our racecar. After [...]
