by Nancy Chek | Nov 10, 2022 | Productivity, Teamwork
From Derek Thompson’s recent Atlantic column, “Work in Progress”: “Last week, I asked readers to tell me what people don’t get about their job. In an economy with thousands of occupations and hundreds of sectors, and where many people within the same large company...
by Nancy Chek | Sep 15, 2022 | Integrity, Leadership
Talking to an engineer today, I realized (again) how much I love engineers. I first realized it when I was creating a module for an engineering client years ago. They understood, in their bones, integrity as “whole and complete, unbroken, unimpaired, sound, in perfect...
by Nancy Chek | Apr 20, 2022 | Innovation
Completion is good—real completion, not the concept, which I parrot often enough with a trail of real incompletions behind me. I just mis-spoke: There are no “real” incompletions; incompletions exist only in language. Using incompletion as a distinction, however, does...
by Nancy Chek | Jan 18, 2022 | Innovation
While I’m always aware of the power of language, frequently—mostly—I’m aware of it conceptually. But now and again, it hits me upside the head and I see it in technicolor—a pervasive force to be reckoned with everywhere. Yesterday was such a time when a friend called...
by Nancy Chek | Dec 21, 2021 | Innovation
”We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, “here and now” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.” ~ José Ortega y Gasset Being complete (as...
