Prosperity and its connection to Time

By Ricky Lyons in : Champion Culture, Culture Thoughts // Jul 26 2010

The metric of prosperity is time.  This has been the case since commerce started.

It is evidenced by the massive prosperity we have achieved by the exponential increase in computing power always at a lower cost.  Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, …(continued)…

Pick up the phone and call me please!

By Ricky Lyons in : Culture Thoughts // Jul 20 2010

I did an email exercise recently.  I took three normal days worth of email and looked at them to see how many had some level of thoroughness. How many were just a long chain of short answers to questions that …(continued)…

The strategy is a checklist

By Ricky Lyons in : Culture Thoughts // Jul 19 2010

We are in the real estate development business where checklists are critical to our contractors, to our lenders, and in several processes we organize on a daily basis.  Prior to reading Gawandi’s book The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get …(continued)…

Humility – Modesty

By Ricky Lyons in : Culture Thoughts // Jul 14 2010

Is there a difference between humility and modesty?  I think there is.  There are many definitions of humility.  From a business perspective many tend to use Jim Collins’ definition as described in his book Good To Great (www.JimCollins.com) which is …(continued)…