Category Archives: Making Choices

Change, Disruption and 2020 in Review

  • by Tom Larsen | Jan 06, 2021 |
  • Gratitude, Making Choices, Organization, Planning |

Over the the past year, I largely wrote about change and disruption. I even had a blog about change in March, Pre-Pandemic. Change and disruption are inextricably linked which generally creates resistance to change because it creates disruption. Most people do not seek disruption. It is less predictable than status quo.This past year has been … Continue reading Change, Disruption and 2020 in Review

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Never Waste A Good Crisis: What if……

  • by Tom Larsen | Nov 18, 2020 |
  • Design, Gratitude, Making Choices, Planning |

We talk so much about disruptive technologies and how positive they are. We rebuild after disaster disruptions, often for the better. What if we treated COVID-19 as a disruptive technology or disaster?

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You thought you understood disruption

  • by Tom Larsen | May 28, 2020 |
  • Design, Making Choices, Marketing, Operations, Organization, Planning, Sales |

In the past, disruption in business terms was when a new entrant to an existing market was doing some aspect radically different. Airbnb was a new kind of lodging (instead of hotels/motels). Uber was a new kind of transportation option (instead of taxis/busses). Blockbuster and Netflix in their own ways were new ways to get … Continue reading You thought you understood disruption

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Don’t waste your Pandemic time: for home workers

  • by Tom Larsen | Apr 01, 2020 |
  • Gratitude, Making Choices |

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. We can choose to work to forecast the end, or we can choose to invest this time spent at home INCREASING our connections with people. We have the time!!!

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Change is a Constant

  • by Tom Larsen | Mar 04, 2020 |
  • Design, Making Choices, Marketing, Planning |

This activity was almost entirely meaningless 25 years ago, yet now represents tens of millions of people doing things every minute of every day that were unheard of in 1995.

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What is Quality?

  • by Tom Larsen | Feb 26, 2020 |
  • Design, Making Choices, Marketing, Product Development |

This means quality is rooted in the expectations of the person making the quality distinction. Think about that for a second amongst all the quality reports or online rating systems…

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Are You Holding Yourself Accountable?

  • by Tom Larsen | Feb 19, 2020 |
  • Making Choices, Operations, Planning, Product Development |

No one would dream of waiting until the day before the wedding to plan and invite the guests. Yet, we know from our own experience that millions of people wait until Christmas Eve to shop for Christmas day.

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6 Reasons It’s Time to Update Your Website

  • by Tom Larsen | Feb 05, 2020 |
  • Making Choices, Marketing, Planning, Sales |

Your site is compared to other sites not related what so ever to what you do. Not your competitors – the UNIVERSE. Like it or not, your entire business is….

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The Journey and the Golden Gate Bridge

  • by Tom Larsen | Jan 29, 2020 |
  • Gratitude, Making Choices, Planning |

This Bridge to me is the epitome of finding a creative and beautiful way to achieve numerous goals most people never think about. In this case

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Person to Person, Real-Time Communication

  • by Tom Larsen | Sep 19, 2018 |
  • Making Choices |

Recently, I was driving my car with two passengers under age 30. Although there was no audio conversation in the car, they had a conversation via text. To be private? Nope. To be efficient. I

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