Thinking Inside the Box

by | Jun 25, 2013 | Agile in Marketing

This isn’t necessarily a business anecdote, but I’ve used it plenty of times to teach principles at the office. This story was originally told to me by Stan Hulse while the two of us were serving as missionaries in Alaska. Stan was a football player in high school in...

Hard to Believe

by | Jun 13, 2013 | Agile in Logistics

We were faced with some huge issues at Iomega in the late 1990s. The 100MB Zip drive was selling great, but we could see that there could be rough times ahead. We were faced with two huge issues over which we had no control. When the Zip drive was introduced at the...

Ugly Babies

by | Jun 6, 2013 | Agile in Marketing

My boss at Iomega in the late 1990s, Tony Radman, taught me this fundamental lesson: “If you have an ugly baby, be sure that you are the first one to notice.” It’s so easy to get caught up in all of the weighty issues and the minutia of day-to-day life in one’s...