In my consulting work, I work with clients to solve problems. That, of course, means we have to clearly identify the problems, which, in turn, means I am guaranteed to spend time with people who are complaining. It seems natural…

I ran my own consulting business for seven years, so technically I was a CEO then, but I had never been in the CEO role within an association until June 2008, when I took a position at Management Solutions Plus,…

Thanks to Jeff De Cagna for pointing out this interesting article by venture capitalist Paul Graham about “managers schedule” versus “makers schedule.” By “maker” he is referring to people like software programmers and writers. They organize their schedule very differently…

My friend Joe Gerstandt is a proud purveyor of the freak flag. I’ve been reading Joe’s stuff for a while now (and it’s awesome, by the way), and I will admit that the first few times he made reference to…

I’ve been thinking a lot about “truth” lately. It started with the article I wrote and the session I did at the CalSAE conference in April. But a couple of weeks ago, inspired by Maddie’s post, I challenged everyone: what…

I started the “Leadership Top 3″ meme a few weeks ago (quite accidentally) and was excited to see eleven TWELVE THIRTEEN people post responses! It’s a LOT of good stuff, and I’m working on some synthesis, but in the mean…

Without intending it, I seemed to have started a meme with my “Top 3″ post last week on leadership. I wrote it thinking about what advice I would be giving someone early in their career so they could focus on…

Hugh Macleod posted an interesting video to his blog. He does marketing for Stormhoek wine, from South Africa, and they recently did a release party for a new wine in the small town of Alpine, Texas, where Hugh now lives. Specifically, they did it at Harry’s Tinaja, and the video is an…