Be like a slingshot…
I have a passion for helping entrepreneurs. For a couple of years, I kept an eye on a young entrepreneur, a college student at the time, we’ll call him Barry, who had impressed me and his professors as a hard worker, honest, and dedicated, and who wanted to start his own company when he graduated. [...]
Trust – Has a different meaning in business
Most words have a denotation and a connotation, and “trust” is no different; In a very generic sense, I think “Trust is a condition, or internal state of mind, I reach over time that allows me to set my expectations with relative confidence as to the future behavior of, or the outcome from a commitment [...]
Welcome to the Operator Blog
This blog is a collection of thoughts and ideas and is dedicated to the “operators.” The people who make things run in most [...]
Power, Ethics, and Leadership
This research paper really touched a nerve for me! The conclusion of the researchers is a sad commentary on what passes for leadership, but, unfortunately, based on my private observations and experiences from many years of business, it is unsurprising. Organizational or Principled dissent – the act of identifying, protesting, or driving change to ethically [...]
Net Neutrality – Policies or Politics
As a geek, engineer, early adopter of internet technologies, and an individual citizen, I agree with my buddies Robert X. Cringely and Mark Gibbs and their assessment the internet is a utility and should be managed as such (Yes and with you Jared ;-)). However, as a capitalist and free-marketer, I have a hard time [...]
Sitting still is sometimes the only thing to do
Trying to convince people that activity does not equal action, and that sometimes sitting still, thinking about the problem; or letting a process run its course before tweaking it, is very tiring for me. Anyone who knows me can attest I always move faster than most people, get more things done than most people, and [...]
