How Domino Can Transform Leadership and Management
Domino is a game played by placing small oblong pieces (or dominoes) in a line, with each piece bearing a number of dots or pips. Each of the pips corresponds to a number on a domino card or a dice, with the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The first player to place a domino in the proper position wins that round. Players take turns to add additional dominoes in the same manner, until one player has laid down all of their dominoes. Dominoes can be used in a variety of games, including straight lines, curved lines, grids that form pictures when they fall, or 3D structures such as towers and pyramids.
The term domino is also used to describe an emotional chain reaction that occurs when a character’s actions logically lead to the next scene in the story. For example, if the heroine’s discovery of an important clue leads to her next action in a way that is not plausible or does not advance the plot, something is wrong with the story. Similarly, if a hero is caught doing something immoral, it is important to provide a logical explanation for why they did so, to help readers give them the leeway to keep liking that hero despite their unethical behavior.
As a business tool, Domino can help you identify and address problems in your leadership structure. Domino is available on-premises or in a fully managed cloud service and allows you to scale how you manage projects without technical hurdles. Domino offers self-service access to tools and infrastructure, and is a highly reliable foundation for the modern multi-cloud environment.
Using a patented technology, Domino has the potential to transform how your teams work together. Domino’s software enables you to build a collaborative, dynamic project plan in minutes and then instantly share it with any team member. You can even track each team member’s progress as they work on the same task, all from a single dashboard.
Leadership and management are not the same, although sometimes they overlap. The difference is that leadership involves making decisions based on the needs of the organization, while management is more bureaucratic.
The word domino derives from the Latin phrase dominus, meaning “lord,” and it has been used to denote a variety of things over the centuries. The word appears in English around 1750, when the game of dominoes was introduced; it earlier denoted a long hooded cloak worn with a mask for the upper part of the face during carnival season or at masquerades. In an even earlier sense, the word may have referred to a cape worn by a priest over his surplice. Domino sets have traditionally been made from a variety of natural materials, including bone, silver lip ocean pearl oyster shell (mother-of-pearl), ivory, and dark wood such as ebony, with contrasting black or white pips inlaid or painted on them. More recently, sets have been made from a variety of polymer materials such as bakelite and melamine.