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Scaling Time, a new book from STI Press, is a great read with a layered message of leadership essentials for distributed teams.

Skerja Press debut business fable climbs to #13 on Amazon Kindle
 
1: Scaling Time launched 16 Feb 17, climbed to #13 in 1st week
2: Tuning in to Station WII-FM: 📡 What's in it for me?
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Business Fable Scaling Time climbs 🚀 to #13 in Amazon Kindle launch

 
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Scaling Time is a layered message of leadership essentials for distributed teams.



Just as I saw with my work inside a national bakery chain when I was in Jacksonville, true business leadership happens at the unscriptable moment-to-moment level, when people see us for whom we really are.

We titled the book Scaling Time, because it equips those leaders who are readers to expand the capacity of their teams to shift the scale of their attention.

From the entire forest, to the individual tree, down to the exacting detail of the veins in a single leaf when required — and back again, Scaling Time equips leaders to shift focus without getting lost in the weeds along the way.

STEM readers can focus on Chapters 9-15, Soft Skills readers, Chapters 1-8.

How we landed in the top 150 books for business decision making is a story for another day. Today we are excited to share this story with you! The 5 Platonic solids mentioned in the Amazon writeup are a richer extension of the damask concept for project planning.

Damask offers us a tangible way to see the level of effort required for various project proposals: Because all damask fabrics are reversible, they have no 'backside' much like the Möbius strip has only one side and one edge. The interplay of physical threads give us a visual metaphor for the length of time, amount of resorces and interactivity that a future project represents.

Starting on p. 384 (of Scaling Time), the rich, interactive con­ver­sa­tions centered around 5 Platonic solids project reporting give char­ac­ters their own voice to express viewpoint after viewpoint on how these simple shapes can mask stifling complexity with the child-inspired genius of play.

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Tuning in to Station WII-FM: 📡 What's in it for me?

   
There are 3 top-level messages that even a surface skim reveals:
  • » Love is essential to leadership at scale, because people care little how much you know until you have proven persistently — in the un­script­able moments — how much you care.
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  • Love is not an emotion: it is a business decision to care about people, to exercise humility and to learn from every encounter.

  • » Role Models are readily available if we but climb to look beyond our previous horizons.

  • » The genius of childlike play unlocks:
    • the native creativity we all possess
    • fosters the exchanges that build trust and
    • equips distributed teams to develop and maintain the disruptively innovative culture of business intimacy: telling people what they need to hear, rather than what we think they want to hear.

 

First & Foremost

The unspoken messages we all transmit are so much more profoundly impactful than those we utter with our lips or our keystrokes.

I am amazed God has graced this career engineer to come full circle to understand business intimacy is central to risk man­age­ment success.

Yul Brenner in his unmatched portrayal of the King of Siam says, It is a puzzlement! And even more pointedly, many will fight to prove that what they do not know is so!
 

Second

Extraordinary technology does not demean but rather uplifts the community experience (the voiceprint anti-noise examples), see pp. 259ff.

The Georgsdóttir twins (Icelandic daughters of the company founders) and their oldest sister are role models of as all three are directors at the firm at an age where most young women, (other than entrepreneurs), would not even be in mid-level man­age­ment.

They give exquisite witness that there is no gender gap or glass ceiling for those willing to set aside failed Alinsky-conflict models and truly deliver transformational leadership.
 

Third

Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga views play as one of the three fundamental aspects of our existence:
  • Homo Sapiens: We the Thinkers
  • Homo Ludens: We the Players
  • Homo Faber: We the Builders
What works best to communicate is different from field to field. It's not right or wrong, it's what is, like gravity or the sun rising in the East.

Moving from unaware to action (after Céline Shillinger of Sanofi Pasteur), we can radically, exponentially improve our project outcomes.

 

Read Scaling Time like you would read Alice in Wonderland


Knowing how to write well, to weave captivating stories is both art & science. Writing so people are drawn to read them thus gifts them with the powerful career & personal-life enriching lessons woven throughout this funny yet profoundly deep tapestry.
 

What's it about?

Scaling Time's first third weaves char­ac­ters who lay the foundation for why we care about learning the 19 Days Schedule Scaling framework. People then tech, never the other way around for enduring success.

Its second third is a cleverly crafted sendup of the failed social engineering that has given us such cultural carnage we see played out in Berkeley and across this great land.

The final third was some of the most mentally challenging writing in has been my privilege to embrace.

We are so excited to help you gain your footing in this novel landscape (please pardon the pun!) because the richness of this man­age­ment tapestry has lessons to teach that scale with no upper limit on the value they deliver to distributed teams.
 

Please contribute a review

There is a ratings boost that comes with having over 50 reviews for a title, so we invite you to download a reviewers' copy on the promise of posting a honest review on Amazon prior to 11:59 GMT 03Mar17.

This Reviewers' link expires 02Mar17: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/2uGAS so act now! Be sure to state 'reviewer's copy' in posted reviews.

The beauty of a digital edition is that we continually revise it from reader con­ver­sa­tions (two this week alone: with a physics professional in FL and a supply chain optimization expert in MN), then upload the improved book so that everyone benefits!

In your comments, please use "tough love." If something isn't conveyed well—tell us! (Directly, not in your Amazon review!) Sweet but empty praise helps no one.

Both BonnieRobin and I can handle constructive critique, in fact we thrive on engaging with our readers and friends, who care enough to tell us when we're not quite reaching our goal of communicating with clarity, passion & purpose.

The Table of Contents is hyperlinked, so it is easy to swiftly move through the book, deep read, skim, note questions, and so forth, to gain a fair sense of the work in reading a bare minimum of 60-90 pages. The more you read, the richer the review you can write!

In closing, we are excited to share this launch week success with you and look forward to your valued input!

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