Middling Management

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Get Off My Adjoining Lawn

There was an internet war of words. Not necessarily a memorable one. One of the many that occurs on the digital battlefield each week. It might have been between VCs and the media and their coverage of some startup. One can’t be too sure. The specific tweet with the observation couldn’t be located, ok? Still, […]

Fostering A Desperate Sense of Urgency

We’re approaching the mid point of February in the year of our lord 2021 / 1 A.C. and we’ve vaccinated approximately 10% of the U.S. population with an initial Covid vaccine. If you think that opening line is boring, life is pretty boring now isn’t it? 3% of the population stands fully vaccinated. We’ve had emergency FDA authorization for the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines for about two months and America stands 5th worldwide in vaccinations per citizen.

…Is that any good? We’re at war with a virus. But it really doesn’t feel like it.

Oversharing Inflames Crisis

The mathematics of company building dictate that once a company gets big enough you’re going to deal with some people problems. If you have more than 365 employees and each of them has one bad day a year, you’ll have affected teams across the company pretty much EVERY day. One really bad day every 5 […]

Explained to Death? Just Say Yes

Have you ever noticed the most curious trend with some of the smartest people? You ask if something is possible hopeful for an affirmative response. Five minutes later…they’re still talking! You don’t know which way is up or out of the hole you’ve been verbally burrowed down.

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