It's almost surreal how fast things are changing, but COVID is still moving faster.

Read on for more ideas for how tech can help us win.

There’s only one news item this year.

My sympathies to anyone who has been affected by COVID-19, directly or through family, friends or colleagues. We’re all in this together—and we all need to help.

With the full force of the world’s media in play, it’s hard to discern the nuggets from the noise. I’ve been studying the available information about COVID for some time and will be sharing observations with you going forward. I hope this helps.

 There’s nothing like a rapid launch to get the ball rolling quickly. Yogi Berra didn’t say that—but I should have in Trusting Technology.

When you improve your operations, you’re upgrading your business. When you embark on such as change, it’s important to consider the three steps in every upgrade.

In Trusting Technology, I write about building confidence in change. For that, you need to master:

Trusting technology is a book about bringing your vision to life. About using technology as a platform for your ideas. Do that once and you get a hit. Reproduce your success and you’re really on to something.

I had the great pleasure of meeting with the CEO Club of Baltimore last week as 50 of the city’s business leaders gathered for a discussion of my new book, Trusting Technology.

Victories make teams stronger. Lay a path of quick wins to your overall goals and you will bolster confidence. Bolder teams win more often.

“We must set ourselves up for success” has been a top-five truism for decades. Gives people the warm and fuzzies before plans are laid, and it’s harmless if action follows intent. Here’s how my think big, act small advice helps you make sure that happens.

Nothing succeeds like a good definition of success.

Bringing your vision to life begins with a strong pool of ideas.

The road to your digital potential doesn’t have to be long and winding.

There are two kinds of opportunity. The first step in bringing your vision to life is to identify both.

I’ve written about upgrading your business on many occasions. Next question—upgrade to what? This is a good time to think about bringing your vision to life.

I think of new year resolutions in the same way I think of annual reviews. Why would you only pay attention to improvement once a year?

So I’m putting a new twist on the resolution thing. See if you like this …

It’s the end of the year. If you’re not already reflecting, let me put a bug in your ear.

The times are, of course, always a changin’. So much so that we rarely take the chance to sit back and reflect on what we’ve learned—and what we haven’t.

Confidence and change go hand in hand. Your colleagues seek confidence when you say you’re leading them to a better place. Customers will walk if they feel let down.

My article for the American Management Association Playbook highlights the need for leaders to balance the tension between operations (doing the day-to-day work that pays the rent) and upgrades (getting better at doing that work).

Here is more on the topic of doing the work better

When I sat down to write Trusting Technology, I was excited at the prospect of writing another book. But I was also concerned about one major limitation of the medium.

Many months later, I think I’ve come up with the solution.

I’ve spent my career at the boundary of business and technology. Yet after decades of looking, I haven’t found a book that connects the two in the way I would like. So I decided to take a stab at writing one myself.

Trusting Technology was published yesterday.

Every business today depends on technology.

Yet 95% of us are not in the tech business.

Imagine waking one morning, turning to your favorite news source, and reading that your biggest competitor has announced a revolutionary new product that could eat your market share for breakfast.

Confidence, they say, is the degree to which you think and "feel" your actions will achieve positive results.