Category: Leadership & Strategy
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Disappearing Jobs
I was at a kid’s birthday party a few months ago and was reading this Tweet (note: it’s a better idea to spend time with other adults at the party instead of on your phone): https://twitter.com/brentbeshore/status/1005514676669542400?s=12 “We’ve looked at around 300 construction-related companies this year and every one of them says the biggest challenge, by…
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Where is The Future Going, Anyway?
The Harvard Business Review wrote an article a couple years back titled, The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. It’s a fascinating piece. Digest it slowly and over several cups of coffee/beer/wine/La Croix/whatever. Changes afoot caused by machine intelligence: Cost of goods and services that rely on prediction will continue to decline. Cheap is good, right? Well,…
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Margin
Event to event. Hectic. Fast-paced. Schedule conflicts. Pack it all in. Tired. Running on empty. Resting. Slowing down. Contemplation. Margin. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to have margin in my life for the last few months. I’m terrible at having margin in my life — mornings, lunch breaks, late nights, whatever. Margins were…
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Road trips, conversations, and unintended delights
I’ve taken some road trips recently. With and without my family. It’s given me a lot of time to think. 25+ hours for this last time, for example. It’s brought me closer to my wife and granted us conversations we’d never have had otherwise. As I was driving the endless miles of an orange-brown hue…
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Themes of Life
Do you listen to the themes playing around you? I didn’t. I’ve had an eventful few months in my personal and professional life recently. A repeating theme has been having the right priorities in place. It’s easy to have the right priorities written down, it’s another to live them out. My wife kept telling me…
Jeff Beaumont 