Archive for January 2024

According to Wikipedia, ABC’s Wide World of Sports was an “sports anthology program” that ran from 1961 to 1998. I’ve written before about watching it regularly over the years, even watching the professional bowling that was on television first. It was known for the “thrill of victory” and the “agony of defeat”, but what I…

One of the best ways to understand an organization is to learn its history. As Peter Senge puts it, “Today’s problems are the result of yesterday’s solutions.” That seems to me a straightforward way to remind us that an organization didn’t simply appear when we joined it. It has a full history of good ideas…

So, as promised last week, here’s my list of goals for the coming year. It’s a bit overwhelming when I look at it all written out like this. However, as I also said last week this is like a strategic plan in that it doesn’t all have to be done this month or even in…

Based on many of my newsletters, it’s time for New Year’s Resolutions! And I’m going to follow the herd and write about them too. I’d like to come at it from a slightly different perspective though and suggest the reason most people think resolutions are useless, and those who still try to make changes at…