I Will Not Rent from Avis

I Will Not Rent from Avis

Posted by: on Feb 2, 2012 | No Comments

My family and I took a short trip from Seattle to Denver last year. There were four of us including two children under the age of five. If you have a choice between traveling with small children on an airplane for more than an hour and, say, getting a root canal, well, I don’t know what to tell you.

Leaders, Teams, and Decisions

Leaders, Teams, and Decisions

Posted by: on Jan 26, 2012 | No Comments

Reading Give me spark today at 37signals I was reminded of some of the lessons I learned reading Patrick Lencioni’s business books. If you haven’t read any, his most famous is probably The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

When you start discussions with a group around an issue for which a decision must be made, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Tempers flare, politics arise, quiet people get really quiet. It’s easy for the real issue to get lost. It’s easy for the wrong decision to be made in order to appease the group.

More Facebook Hyperbole

More Facebook Hyperbole

Posted by: on Sep 27, 2011 | No Comments

This is about Facebook. I think they’re going to win this one. In fact, I think they’re going to win all of them for the time being. It doesn’t matter what you believe their current problems are, they’re going to win.