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Life Frame
What is your life frame?  What are the key buckets in your life that you need to balance across?  If you have a frame, you can balance your life through thick and through thin.  If you have a life frame, you can more thoughtfully allocate Read More...
Posted 20 March 08 05:53 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Success Strategies
As part of my improvement sprint focused on leadership, I'm making my way through The First 90 Days , by Michael Watkins. In a nutshell, it's a guide for how new leaders can be successful. I think it's actually relevant for any new role or situation. Read More...
Posted 17 January 08 04:39 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Focus and Energy
A colleague drew a chart on my board today. I'll summarize like this: Procrastinators - Low energy and low focus Disengaged - Low energy and high focus Distracters - High energy and low focus. Purposeful - High energy and high focus I like new lenses. Read More...
Posted 10 January 08 04:26 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Reward Yourself in the Moment
Happy New Year! It's a new year and many of you will be setting new goals for yourself as part of your New Year's resolutions. I want to give you an important nugget you can use when you implement your goals and start to face some potential discomfort Read More...
Posted 01 January 08 10:36 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Love Your Dogs
I read an interesting article on behavioral economics by Harry Quarls, Thomas Pernsteine, and Kasturi Rangan, in "strategy+business" magazine. According to the authors, behavioral finance supports a counter-intuitive strategy of loving your market "dogs" Read More...
Posted 31 December 07 10:55 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Kano, Satisfiers, and Dissatisfiers
If you're looking for yet another way to help you prioritize your backlog or to help you shape your product's design, consider the Kano model . One concept in the Kano model is satisfiers and dissatisfiers. You can think of satisfiers as features you Read More...
Posted 31 December 07 10:24 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Rituals for Results
Routines help build efficiency and effectiveness. Consistent action over time is the key to real results. If you add continuous improvement or Kaizen to the picture, you have an unbeatable recipe for success. The following are some of my rituals for results: Read More...
Posted 27 December 07 03:56 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Kaizen
Kaizen is a Japanese term for continuous improvement. A little Kaizen goes a long way over time. From a personal development standoint, it's key for overcoming resistance . Read More...
Posted 25 December 07 04:48 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Three keys of a business case
If you have to compete for resources or budget or sell an idea, one of the keys is a business case. One way to think of a business case is "how big is the pie" and "what's your slice." You use the business case either to argue for your project or in argument Read More...
Posted 20 December 07 12:50 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Framing Results
It's one thing to get results. It's another to articulate them. Having a way to frame results can help both for personal learning, as well as review time when you have to reflect on accomplishments. Commitment, Results, How, Evidence, Analysis I've found Read More...
Posted 19 December 07 11:07 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Iterate More, Plan Less
I'm always on the prowl for useful insights. Alik sent me a link to Dustin Andrew's post, Learn to Get Traction in Your Team . I like the collection of tips, and I found myself using the phrase, iterate more, plan less a few times. When I joined Microsoft, Read More...
Posted 17 December 07 10:42 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Outlook Reminder for Leadership Practices
I created a recurring appointment in Outlook for Fridays. It's a checklist of key leadership practices from The Leadership Challenge . Each Friday, I scan this checklist and reflect on how well I've demonstrated the practices and where I need to tune Read More...
Posted 04 December 07 09:37 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Harvard Business Review and The Economist
I'm always on the prowl for sources of profound insight. At my leadership workshop last week, I noticed the instructor had a wealth of practical insights and distinctions that aren't common knowledge. I asked him his favorite sources of information and Read More...
Posted 19 November 07 12:19 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Growth Mind-set Over Fixed Mind-set
Do you have to be great at everything? If this stops you from doing things you want to try, then it's a limiting belief. Scott Berkun spells this out in Why You Should Be Bad at Something . Keys to Growing Your Skills Here's a set of practices and mind-sets Read More...
Posted 14 October 07 08:30 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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How To Be a Leader in Your Field
How to be a leader in your field? Dragos shared a link to How to Be a Leader , which I found interesting. In the article, Philip E. Agre presents a six step recipe for becoming a leader in your field: Pick an issue. Having chosen your issue, start a project Read More...
Posted 24 September 07 09:01 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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