Critical Doer

A Critical Doer Controls What Is Theirs To Control Invictus…Latin for “unconquerable”…is a powerful poem written by a critical doer for critical doers.  The words of the poem are powerful enough on their own merit.  In case you’ve never read this poem, take a look before we proceed.   Out of the night that covers […]

A Critical Doer Generates Motion From “Why” More Than “What”  The military is often wrongly perceived as a follow orders, never ask why organization that doesn’t foster innovation and creativity.  Grant it, there are time critical situations where there can be no time gap between order and execution.  In the planning phase however, the military […]

A Critical Doer capitalizes on opportunities to be better   Chip and Dan Heath hit a home run with their book Decisive:  How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work.     There’s no shortage of authors that tell you how important it is to think critically.  A few attempt to give you a […]

A Critical Doer Generates Motion From “Why” More Than “What”  In the life of every organization, the environment changes over time.  Changes in conditions that determine the rate at which production hums along leads to the question…how much can we do? When faced with this situation, there are four general ways you can approach the […]

A Critical Doer Generates Motion From “Why” More Than “What”  “A Knight’s Tale” starring the late Heath Ledger is not a new movie, but it’s one of my all-time favorites and as I watched it on TV this past weekend, I realized it was a great critical doer story. If you haven’t seen the movie, […]

The Critical Doer Attacks Problems And Creates Opportunities From The Inside Out  I’ve shared with you before that I enjoy archery.  Any day on the archery range is a good day…today was exceptional. I went to one of my favorite archery spots today…The Sportsman’s Outpost in Waverly, Alabama…to get in a few shots.  When I […]

The Critical Doer Is Committed To Thinking And Doing    I really appreciate the feedback you provided when I published a post called “Thinkers and Doers—Why The Two Must Be One To Get Things Done.”  I decided that post should be revisited after a quote from ancient history came up in a conversation with some […]

A Critical Doer Is Committed To Thinking And Doing  Wait a minute…in the last post, the critical doer said I should make the problem bigger; now he wants me to make it smaller? That has to be what you’re thinking if you read my previous post.  The full articulation of the thought is make the […]

A Critical Doer Is Committed To Thinking And Doing   If you look at the definition of the word “problem” it seems odd that you’d want to make it bigger.  Ironically, that’s exactly what Gen Dwight Eisenhower did when he was faced with a challenge and was trying to figure out what to do.  “The […]

Cul-ture (kŭl′chər)  The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization Many organizations begin with a great idea for a product or service…many of those products and services are brought to life…yet the organization still fails.  The primary reason is the organization attempts to operate without the equivalent of a birth certificate to establish a clear sense of identity.  The birth certificate […]