[Note, this post originally appeared on the ProductCraft blog and the topic later informed a presentation I gave as guest instructor for ProductSchool] “What?! We couldn’t believe what we were hearing. This officer wanted our team of mentor-Marines to patrol the route with the record for the greatest number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ever …
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[Note, this post originally appeared on ProductCraft] It was 3 am, ten kilometers outside of Marjah, Afghanistan, and just a few nights after the start of Operation Moshtarak (the largest offensive since the fall of the Taliban). I was a 26-year-old Marine Intel Lieutenant, huddled with a platoon in some abandoned farmers’ huts on the …
[Note, this post originally appeared on ProductCraft I am re-posting it here as I tear down another site and post-dating it to when it was first posted there. ] What can this guy……possibly teach this guy about creative product work? I am a product manager at IBM; in a past life, I led Intelligence and …
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It’s a new year, some people like new years resolutions and some hate them. I’m not interested in the debate, but I have noticed that when people ask my advice or for suggestions I often end up saying the same things. I want to make it easier to reference and more widely available. You could …
(retro re-post from my Medium account, Jul 4, 2018 ) “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants” –Thomas Jefferson (or maybe it musn’t!?) I propose a trade: I ask for your attention in reading this note, your reflection after reading it and your action afterwards …
My mission is to grow powerful people. To do this I learn, teach, and mentor so that they can better survive and thrive. I’m passionate about purpose, people, context and culture. I’m driven, and really always have been, to help people survive and thrive by understanding knowledge. I’ve always been hungry to learn more, know …
How skills gained in the military can be applied to solving everyday problems and how IBM values and leverages them [Note this post originally appeared on the IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Blog – I am re-posting it here as I tear down another site and post-dating it to when it was first posted there. ] …
