Jason Buffington .com

  • Win the race to apologize first

    Have you ever been in an argument – and you knew that you were right – so all that was necessary was the other person needed to apologize? Yeah … you might have been right … they might have been… Read more

  • Delegation rarely saves time

    Delegating expert tasks rarely yields immediate time savings, but it always results in growing others’ expertise and your impact – and that is time well spent.  Let’s talk about it. Transcript I often talk to folks about how they “don’t… Read more

  • What are you going to do about it?

    Have you noticed that some ‘Two-Minute Mondays‘ videos are closer to 3 minutes?  (never over, but close)  Admittedly, ‘One-Minute Mondays’ seems too short to be meaningful – but ‘Three-Minute Mondays’ seems too long to try.  Let’s talk about what those… Read more

  • Roses – Buds – and Thorns

    If you’ve ever gotten through a big project/event and wanted to talk about how to do it better, you might have had an “after action” meeting – usually framed around Start, Stop, Continue.  There’s a twist on that which I… Read more

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  • Innovate as you Iterate

    People and organizations often have “core values” that define who they are or want to be – which in turn, ought to drive every other decision you make. One of my core values lines up with what my employer calls… Read more

  • Repetition (alone) does not make you better – feedback does

    Repeated attempts is NOT the only key to improving a skill.  In fact, sometimes when folks repeatedly just “do”, they develop – and then the repetition reinforces – bad performance.  So, the answer can’t be just “try harder” or “try… Read more