Easy Read
Morning meditation for the businessperson
I woke up and realized immediately that the situation was mission-critical and right where the rubber meets the road. I needed to circle back and reach out to key stakeholders asap to touch base and close the loop on how to secure quick wins by brainstorming out-of-the-box, game changing, bleeding edge solutions that proactively leveraged synergies and really moved the needle by picking the low-hanging fruit to get over the finish line, without reinventing the wheel. It was not lost on me that I had to quarterback this as I was knee-deep and couldn’t punt, throw it over the wall, or table the conversation. Rather, I had to take ownership, drill down, bite the bullet, pull the trigger, and knock it for six. After all, I had the bandwidth and was dealing with a matter of core values, not shooting from the hip. To succeed, I needed to swing for the fences, hit a home run, and make hay while the sun shone. It was here that the lightbulb went off and I had my aha moment; This was my moon shot, I needed to strike while the iron was hot, get my game face on…and make my morning coffee.
Master Planning New Cities
and How Not to Make a Hard Thing Even Harder
The boom/bust business environment of the Gulf oil nations provides the backdrop for a professionally focused discussion of the hyper-ambitious city-sized building programs you hear about on the news and see on the Discovery channel.
A practitioner's guide to how these building programs come together as a single "master plan" and then move into construction.
A Trail of New Cities provides applicable lessons for anyone interested in the organizational dynamics of complex multi-stakeholder, multi-cultural, engineering and human development projects. Enjoy.
A series of articles on business, leadership, organizational development, and (sometimes) urbanization. Usually funny, often smart, occasionally insightful, always short; connecting the dots in unconventional ways.
