by David McCoy | December 1, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Gobbling down chow at the Chinese restaurant with one of my sons, and guess what? I get a fortune cookie that says, “Within a year, you will inherit a lot of money!” Oh, really? Let’s look at this fortune cookie in two different ways: Positive: “Oh, how cool! I’m going to get a ton of [...]
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by David McCoy | June 24, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Scenario 1: Attended a kid birthday party at one of those game-pizza-noise places. Everyone who comes in gets stamped with a UV readable number. Upon leaving, you take only the kids that match your number. Fair deal. Well, I watched families leaving and no one was checking them out. In fact, there was no one [...]
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by David McCoy | April 28, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Gartner defines agility as, “the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively.” Sounds simple doesn’t it? And who doesn’t want to be agile? Daryl Plummer and I have led Gartner’s agility research for years and you know… “being agile” is a lot harder than it sounds. Besides all the [...]
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by David McCoy | April 17, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Scenario 1: Truck marked “Law Enforcement” towing a trailer with no working brake lights. Stops in front of me and I almost rear-end him. Scenario 2: Van marked “Police” races past me and runs a full red light while I stop. This was a “work detail” van – roadside trash collection with prison labor. No [...]
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by David McCoy | March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
This past weekend, I willingly participated in one of the most painful processes on the planet – I went looking at new cars. The weather was warm, my Saturday meeting was boring, and I was near car heaven. So, I went looking. Man, do I hate the car looking-testing-sniffing-buying process. Even though most of the [...]
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by David McCoy | March 20, 2009 | Submit a Comment
When we were all rolling in those filthy-rich, blissful days of Internet summer, all around us, people were saying, “The old rules don’t apply!” Bricks-and-mortar are dead, clicks are the new currency, the old economy is dead, long live the new economy. The market only goes up, income only goes up, house prices only go [...]
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by David McCoy | March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m a card-carrying fan of The Three Stooges. Yes, I’m male… so we know that my admiration is genetically-wired, but it’s still admiration. Late last night, when I couldn’t sleep, I watched some pristine new releases of classic Columbia Stooges shorts and couldn’t help but wonder: “What if The Three Stooges had been cast in [...]
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by David McCoy | March 17, 2009 | 13 Comments
Today, my wife advanced another major step in her quest to be ordained as a Methodist minister. The amount of preparatory work for this big day was similar to what I have seen with consulting firm senior managers who are up for partner and with professors being considered for tenure – it’s that serious. Ordination [...]
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by David McCoy | February 27, 2009 | Submit a Comment
As a kid, I played a mean game of neighborhood softball. You know the story: 1960s to very early ’70s, red mud fields, wooden bats, marginally-stitched softballs, bases made out of left-over building material, neighborhood friends, neighborhood bullies, no uniforms, shoes optional. Yeah! You played it too? Do you remember how we determined which team [...]
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by David McCoy | February 20, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Here’s a provocative piece I wrote back in 2003, for our Unconventional Thinking blog. The Emergence of Real-Time Rule: Mind if We Plug in? We Fellows do a lot of Unconventional Thinking. At the time, this piece was considered pretty far-fetched, but I believed it 100% then and still do. Today, it almost seems like [...]
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