by mmartyn | Oct 1, 2010 | Change, Changing Behavior, Human Behavior, Results
“We have declared war on work as a society…it is a civil war…a cold war.” – Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” Mike Rowe had it right when we said we are ”waging a war on work.“ It seems as if more and more, people avoid rolling up their...
by mmartyn | Sep 28, 2010 | Change, Continuous Improvement, Culture
In a 2009 TED talk on his theory of singularity, Ray Kurzweil used the example of the Human Genome Project (sequencing DNA) to explain the path and power of exponential growth. Started in 1990, HGP began the process of mapping the sequence of the genome, which proved...
by mmartyn | Sep 26, 2010 | Continuous Improvement, Engagement, Enterprise Alignment, Human Behavior, Problem Solving, Visual Management
After spending countless hours analyzing visual management boards in office and manufacturing environments, many fail to live up to the expectations we set for them and die a slow and painful death. Here are three simple mistakes I routinely see made when designing...
by mmartyn | Feb 22, 2010 | Brain, Creativity, Design, Problem Solving
In his new book Change by Design, Tim Brown presents the idea that we should learn by making…or as he puts it, instead of thinking about what to build, we should “build in order to think.” The brain and the hand are inextricably linked. We rely on the use of our...
by mmartyn | Oct 14, 2009 | Change, Human Behavior, Organizational Structure
David Logan researches and writes on Tribal Leadership. Interesting topic and I think we have much to learn from his work when it comes to better understanding how groups of people naturally organize around commonalities and bond to get work done. Of particular...
