by Dwayne Phillips Once again, thinking at one layer higher than usual may bring insights that prove effective. There is competence: someone is able to do something well. They know the topic, they know the skills, and they apply them all. The adjective “well” is used often and truthfully. Then there is meta-competence: this has […]
Entries Tagged as 'Adapting'
Meta-Competence
February 22nd, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Adapting · Choose · Competence · Management · Meta · Time
Juggling and Dropping Things
December 28th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips One key to learning how to juggle is to know how to drop something. The same is true for managing competing priorities and tasks. Just about every “Help Wanted” ad I see has something in it about managing competing priorities or managing multiple tasks. I guess they want someone who can decide […]
Tags: Adapting · Agility · Chaos · Decide · Jobs · Management · Multitasking
You Are Too Good, You Are Fired
October 30th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes some persons excel to the point where they need to be fired. You have outgrown what we do here. You are much more capable than we need. You are fired. Those words don’t make sense. If someone has improved and improved, we want them to stay with us, right? Perhaps not. […]
Tags: Adapting · Growth · Jobs · Learning · Technology · Tools
The Meeting Is Over, Now
October 12th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Once a meeting ends, the after meeting begins and the real work is done. Can we do this better? I’ve seen it a thousand times—literally a thousand times. I’ve attended that many meetings. The meeting has its agenda and participants. The meeting is conducted. We are finished. People stay in the room […]
Tags: Adapting · Change · Learning · Management · Meetings · Thinking · Work
Will It Scale?
September 28th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The infamous question in the title might as well be, “What can we do to kill this good idea?” We found something that works well for. We have used it several times. We intend to keep using it. Then someone asks the deadly question, “Will it scale?” They want to know when […]
Tags: Adapting · Ideas · Learning · Management · Scale · Work
Take Pride in the Ability to Learn
September 25th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Learning is a good thing. There are things I can do to prevent learning. Those are not so good. I don’t know it all. I do know how to learn. I do know how to recognize that I am clueless and I need to learn. Pride in knowing it all keeps me […]
Tags: Adapting · Change · Humility · Learning
The (Un)Real Book Writers
May 29th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some people are using text-generating software to write a book a day. The world changes daily. Some people change while some don’t. Here is a story about some folks in India(?) who are putting several books a day every day onto online book sellers. The same bunch of folks are writing glowing […]
Tags: Adapting · Artificial Intelligence · Jobs · Technology · Writing
Hobby Programming and AI (low-code/no-code)
May 22nd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Recent advances in chatting or Q&A software has provided the ability to write simple computer programs. Hooray! There is a trend in the workplace called “low-code/no-code.” A person at work writes a ten-line computer program that is helpful in that it will do something in a minute that would take the person […]
Tags: Adapting · Artificial Intelligence · Change · Computing · Programming · Systems
A New Writing Project at Home
April 6th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I don’t want to jump into the next book-writing project at home. Or do I? I just finished a writing project at home. Done, wrapped up, self-published on the places where my friends and relatives can by it for 99¢. Sigh. I don’t want to jump into the first thing that pops […]
Tags: Adapting · Alternatives · Analysis · Choose · Writing
Rigidly Flexible
July 28th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips As a writer and just about anyone else, we must be flexible in a rigid manner. The same is true for almost every adjective and its antonym. A writer must be flexible. Except when the writer must be rigid. Except when exceptions arise. The same goes for just about any adjective and […]
Tags: Adapting · Agility · Alternatives · Choose · Communication · Language