WordPress as a Winning Strategy
WordPress should never be underestimated. Although nearly of a quarter of the web runs on WordPress—including some huge important sites—the reputation of WordPress is unfairly depressed. (Some major websites in WordPress: The New Yorker, BBC America, Sony Music, and...
Diagram It!
Don’t take this the wrong way. But the truth is: if you are in charge, you almost certainly have no clue what’s going on. It’s true. There are reasons for this. Some of them—I’d say most of them—aren’t your fault. But if you learn a few...
The Before Picture
For most people, daily work looks like this: Somebody with a fancy title makes some demands and issues orders, and everyone else rushes to execute them. Privately, the workers grumble that the orders make no sense or that the manager is out of touch. But they do the...
How I Came To See Work Differently
I admit that I’m simplifying, but one guy saved Japan after World War II and essentially threw down a challenge to the world: learn a new approach to business or get crushed by the competition. Dr. W. Edwards Deming taught Japanese businesspeople—starting in the...
What’s Wrong With Work?
You probably sense it. Most of us do. Work is a problem. It’s not that something particularly tragic is happening at the office right now, although it might be. It’s more basic than that. It’s ongoing. It’s hard to put your finger on it, but...Good Dog!
There is now a Gus section! Because I left Facebook near the end of 2020 and Gus has so many fans, he now has his own section on this website.