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Author Archives: D. Mark Jackson
10 Things To Check Before Every Presentation
There’s a lot to remember when giving multimedia presentations. PowerPoint or KeyNote presentations involve the complex interaction of your computer, your software, the presentation file, a display screen or projector, your remote, and the audio system. And increasingly, presentations are given … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Technology
Tagged checklists, KeyNote, PowerPoint, presentations, webinar
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To Be Profitable: Focus On The Customer, Not Profits.
(updated below) I finally had the chance to watch the Steve Jobs presentation on the iPhone 4 antennae issue. You can watch it here. I was impressed by this statement in Job’s opening remarks: We want to make … all our users … Continue reading
Posted in Lean and Six Sigma, Technology
Tagged antennae, Apple, customer focus, iPhone, iPhone 4, principle centered leadership, profits, Stephen Covey, Steve Jobs, video
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The World’s Got Talent
Among the many ways the web has changed the world, I’d like to add one more. For me, at least, it’s engendered a greater appreciation for the variety and extent of human ability. Sure, some of what gets posted to … Continue reading
Psychological Techniques For Boosting Creativity
Looking for ways to increase creativity, methods grounded in actual research? Take a look at this two part series on psychological techniques to boost creativity. One of my favorites: People often jump to answers too quickly before they’ve really thought about the … Continue reading
How A Burglar Changed Gravity
The New York Times has an interesting article about a new approach to understanding gravity led by physicist Erik Verlinde. Rather than treating gravity as a separate fundamental force, it can be seen as a consequence of the laws of … Continue reading
Is Law Practice More Like Russia or Poland?
Salon has a fascinating interview of Clay Shirky in which he lays out his Russia-Poland Theory: Which is: one of the reasons Poland did better than Russia after the collapse of Communism is they’d only had one generation under the Communists, … Continue reading
5 Things Science Tells Us About Motivation
What does science tell us about motivating people to do good work? Here’s an interesting ten minute video combining illustrations with a Daniel Pink lecture, and discussing five key findings: For rewarding simple straightforward tasks, money is a good motivator. When … Continue reading
Posted in Lean and Six Sigma
Tagged autonomy, compensation, Google, mastery, motivation, Netflix, purpose
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Presenting on Ethics and E-Discovery at U.S. Open
(updated) I’ll be presenting at the U.S. Open golf tournament today. The topic is ethics and electronic discovery. My thesis is that lawyers need to adapt in two ways in the age of electronic discovery: Better understand technology, because evidence … Continue reading
Turn Failures Into Breakthroughs
Is that unexpected result a stupid mistake, or an expression of the truth? Don’t resist anomalous information because it might lead to an epiphany. Jonah Lehrer has the the following advice: Check Your Assumptions: Ask yourself why this result feels … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond Categorization
Tagged Covey, creativity, epiphany, failure, paradigms
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An Overflowing Inbox Is Not A Kanban System
From David Allen (no link available): It is a residue from the industrial and agricultural world, I think, when the things to be done were much more physically self-evident. The “piles” in most offices nowadays seem just meager attempts to … Continue reading
Posted in GTD, Lean and Six Sigma
Tagged continuous flow, David Allen, email, inbox zero, inputs, kanban
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