8 Stages of Personal and Team Growth
D. Brown Management
May 3, 2020
Exploration expands our context. Learning and deliberate practice builds and demonstrates our individual productivity. Develop team productivity with four levels of leveraging yourself through others. Take an inventory of where you and your team are at.
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10 Jugs of Wine - A Tale from Japan
D. Brown Management
April 30, 2020
Diffusion of personal responsibility can occur quickly on teams. Everyone must contribute. This is a simple tale from Japan that elegantly illustrates the point and includes how people react even when the failed results are clear.
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The Cost of Specializaton
D. Brown Management
April 24, 2020
Learn the right balance between specialists and generalists. Specialization is great and is what has allowed all of us to continually experience improved lives for generations. However, when taken too far, specialization can become a liability.
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Average is Rare and Rarely Valuable
D. Brown Management
April 23, 2020
Study the differences between the varying levels of performance and work to close those gaps. Seeing how the average is trending can be very valuable to visualizing the trajectory, and that goes for every element on a Contractor's Scoreboard.
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Deliberately Building Your Perfect Life
D. Brown Management
April 22, 2020
What did you do today to improve your value-add and do more of what you love? The foundation of all sustainably growing contractors is a team with each person individually strong, sharing common values, and aligned around a common purpose.
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The Basic Math of Prioritization
D. Brown Management
April 21, 2020
Build your project, career, and business more profitably by continually allocating more of your resources to their "Highest & Best" use, focusing on prioritized probabilities rather than possibilities.
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Creative Adaptability as a Company Culture and Capability
D. Brown Management
April 20, 2020
Ensure that your business and career thrives in the current COVID shutdown and in the likely post-COVID recession. Be like Batman and build yourself into who you need to be in order to thrive in all situations.
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Evaluating Levels of Importance and Desire
D. Brown Management
April 18, 2020
Your feelings about what is "Really Important" or "Urgent" are often lying to you, or at the very least, stretching the truth. Your calendar tells you the truth, even though you may not like what it says.
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Learning, Doing and Teaching
D. Brown Management
April 14, 2020
Growth in life, career, and business is about a continual cycle of learning, doing, and teaching.
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Reflections on Learning to Ski - 8 Core Principles for Learning a Completely New Skill
David Brown
January 6, 2020
While I am learning every day, it has been a very long time since I’ve put myself in the position of learning something completely new. That has now changed, as over the last couple of weeks of 2019, I learned to ski.
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