Uncategorized – Mike Kuphal's Thoughts

When everything is urgent, nothing is truly urgent!

Don’t let urgent asks drown out the most important work Constant Urgency Hampers Efficiency–> The modern digital workspace often feels like everything is a top priority, leading to loss of focus and genuine urgency. The Emotional Side of Urgency–> Often, the label of “urgent” is more about seeking attention than actual importance. Introducing the Important/Urgent … Continue reading

Complicated vs Complex Problem Solving

Do you know the difference between Complicated and Complex problems? Earlier this week I was revisiting one of my absolute favorite books: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Excellent book, I encourage you to consider giving it a look if you are interested in modern scaling teams theory and/or how … Continue reading

Want to make a lasting impact? Focus on bringing people together

Just a little over a year ago, Aaron Orr (J. J. Keller Developer at the time) passed away suddenly. As the anniversary of Aaron’s passing approached, I found myself thinking about Aaron and the times I and others shared with him. Many smiles/laughs and even a few tears for me during this time. One really … Continue reading

Hello World 2.0

The new MikeKuphal.com is now up and running. After many failed attempts to transfer the content I blogged at mkuphal.wordpress.com via various WordPress tools, I finally broke down and manually copied each post. Side effect of this manual transfer is a lack of comments posted to the original blog posts. I am excited … Continue reading

Hello World

I have had the urge to blog for a few months now. Finally going to commit to making it happen. Like all geeks, first step is writing that “Hello World” app. So here it is and like most Hello World apps, it wasn’t as hard as I thought it might be, just needed to sit … Continue reading