Aloha Kakahiaka,
Greeting of the day in Hawaiian to take you back to this day in 1874 when US troops landed in Honolulu to protect the King.
A Bloggers version of Lean methodologies….
What can you “Sprint Test?” I’d like to try this with our on boarding process at Innovel.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/01/fixing-the-buffet-line.html
How’s Your Memory?
I really like the 3rd point. This is similar to something a sharp Sergeant taught me early in my Army career. His true test of whether one of his soldiers had learned something was if they could teach it to another soldier. I also like the intellectual curiosity mindset that the 3rd point suggests.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224558
Get your “Hygge” on:
For those of you who live in colder climates…I was in shorts and a t-shirt yesterday 🙂
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-through-a-miserable-winter-with-the-danish-c-1791001000
A book I am totally getting into when I really didn’t think I would…. – The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
My family visited the LBJ Ranch in the Texas Hill Country over the Christmas break and really enjoyed it. The land and facilities were very impressive, but I was also struck by the legend of the man himself and his wife Lady Bird. I wanted to learn more and picked up this book which is the 2nd in a series of books about LBJ. The biography is cutting and takes any and all polish off of the power broker of a politician that I had believed LBJ to be. It also shines a light on the amazing corruption in southern elections in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Last night I finished the section about Governor Coke Stevenson who is a Texas legend and strikes me as a very impressive man.
https://www.amazon.com/Means-Ascent-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/1501264346
Quote that you can interpret many different ways, but I like it!
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thouroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaim ‘Wow! What a Ride!'”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Bookkeeping note (pun intended)
I want to thank those of you have been participating in the discussions about the book Creativity Inc. I have really enjoyed the dialogue and idea exploration that goes on in those sessions. I’d like to execute a similar concept in the month of February and am soliciting ideas for a book to read and discuss. We broke the discussions of Creativity Inc. into 3 sessions, but with the next book we will have 1 discussion and give everyone a full month to read the book. Let me know if you have a book that you think would be a good fit for the group to discuss. Right now I am leaning towards Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday.
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