A recurring theme in Star Trek is the Mirror Universe: A parallel world where everything is upside down: Honorable characters are scheming villains and the audience can quickly recognize evil characters because they now sport a goatee. I often use this […]
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After creating the statue of David, the great artist Michelangelo was asked how he had accomplished this masterpiece. Michelangelo answered that he looked at the original block of uncut marble, imagined David hidden in there, and simply took out everything […]
“Do high performance routines and habits stifle creativity and innovation?” It was a great question from an audience member, after I had given a keynote on how the best get better. My position is that routines and habits are actually […]
A force multiplier is a factor that gives you the ability to accomplish greater feats than without it. In the context of high-performance it means increased productivity: The ability to achieve the same (or better) results in less time. The following […]
When I was a young process engineer, I was tasked to build a spreadsheet to help optimize a chemical plant. The spreadsheet was done quickly, but I was so enthusiastic that I decided to extend my efforts and build a state-of-the-art […]
Peeling potatoes is hard work. Since we were eating potatoes frequently when I was growing up, we were naturally interested in a new invention: The Magic Potato Peeling Machine. We bought the machine and what looked great on paper was much […]
If you don’t have your own goals, you will be working for the goals of someone else. We still have seven months to go in 2023: It’s a good time to step back and take a look at your goals for […]
The average human has one breast and one testicle. The average human also does not exist in real life. Be careful with blindly using averages to interpret data. A great pen and nice paper inspires me to write. I therefore […]
In the past decade I have facilitated workshops with hundreds of groups, ranging from three to three thousand people. These are some of the best facilitation practices I use to make most out of these sessions: 1/ Start with discussing with the group […]
When I was a student of statistics, I was told that outliers should be discarded. Now that I’m a student of high-performance, I realize that outliers are the only things which really matter. Recently, the CTO of Microsoft explained in […]
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