Category Archives: Plan

I’m cur­rently read­ing “The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of Kava­lier and Clay” by Michael Chabon. It’s an engag­ing story focus­ing on two cousins in the late 1930’s in New York who are work­ing to break into the comic book indus­try as artists … Con­tinue read­ing →

When I recently asked a coworker how she was doing, she responded with, “Over­whelmed… but I guess that’s bet­ter than being under­whelmed.” I had never really con­sid­ered those two con­cepts on the same spec­trum before. So I looked up the … Con­tinue read­ing →

I heard a great anal­ogy today that answers the objec­tion that it takes too much time to seek an associate’s per­spec­tive dur­ing a per­for­mance con­ver­sa­tion. You’ve prob­a­bly heard that con­cern or maybe even said it your­self. THE ANALOGY: In a … Con­tinue read­ing →

A.I.G. made plenty of head­lines this past week­end with the report­ing of their $165 mil­lion pay­out in bonuses. That’s after the com­pany received $173 bil­lion of tax­payer funded bailout. A.I.G. argues that the bonuses were needed to keep top tal­ent. … Con­tinue read­ing →

The term games­man­ship came from Stephen Pot­ter’s book “Games­man­ship: The Art of Win­ning Games With­out Actu­ally Cheat­ing” orig­i­nally pub­lished in 1947. A newly updated ver­sion titled “The The­ory And Prac­tice Of Games­man­ship Or The Art Of Win­ning Games With­out Actu­ally … Con­tinue read­ing →

I love when one Mup­pet can carry so much har­mony all by him­self. Ode To Joy from Beaker on Vimeo. What’s it take for you to be able to bal­ance six projects at once in per­fect harmony?