July 21st, 2006 | 
Narrator: Dennis Bouksikaris – Excellent Genre: Thriller, Espionage, Assassins and Terrorists Writing: Good for this Genre Story: A bit hokey Time: 7 hours 6 minutes While the whole idea that Somalian terrorists stealing a 727 to fly it into the Liberty Bell might seem preposterous, I liked this book. It’s far from a thinking persons [...]
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Last weekend I went to my first NASCAR race. NHIS (New Hampshire International Speedway) hosted the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 Nextel Cup Series race weekend. I wasn’t there for the big event on Sunday, but I spent the day with about 5,000 of my new best buddies (at the 91,000 seat track) on Friday [...] After the Tour’s stage 16, the Discovery Channel Team (Lance Armstong’s old squad) is out of contention for this year’s Tour. In a year when several of the world’s top riders were banned from the event with doping charges, George Hincapie, the team’s new leader, struggled to keep up with the remaining top riders. [...] Compensation, recognition, reward and retention are exceedingly complex and vary from person to person and situation to situation. There are few hard and fast rules in this area of management, other than those that exist to ensure lawful behavior, but there are some reasonable guidelines that apply to the vast majority of circumstances. Not using [...] My good friend and intrepid VC, Brad Feld, has a new, thoughtful post on knowing who your customer is titled, The Three Constituencies. Like Brad, I find that many companies really don’t understand who their customer is. This simple problem is HUGE and can easily retard the growth or even kill small companies and severely [...] I was reading Autoweek Magazine today and ran across a short article with the picture below. Thinking it was a late 60’s Vette, I started to skip the article. Not that I don’t like late 60’s/early 70’s Vettes, I’ve just read a lot about them and their history already. Something made me do [...] Author: Buzz Bissinger Genre: Sports, Baseball, Non-Fiction Narrator: Jeffrey Nordling – Excellent Writing: Good Story: Poor Time: 9 Hours 51 Minutes I love baseball and, for the most part, love baseball books. To me, all baseball books have to hold their own against Michael Lewis’ Moneyball, the best baseball book of all time, in my [...] My last post on management, When Firing Someone, Focus On Those That Remain, got me thinking about how organizations function and the role of various types of people within organizations. Inevitably, some people work well within certain organizations and some work poorly. Perhaps one of the most interesting facts about this dynamic is that [...] I finally dipped deep into the piggy bank to upgrade my digital SLR camera from my trusted steed, a relatively old Canon D60, to a brand-spankin’ new Canon 5D. It’s difficult to compare these two cameras since 1) there have been several generations of Canon DSLRs between my two versions, 2) the D60 is an [...] Lance Armstrong isn’t there, of course, but the US remains well represented in the Tour de France this year. This includes a few riders who could have a place on the podium when it’s all over. George Hincapie (Discovery Channel – Lance’s old team), Floyd Landis (Phonak) and Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) are all real contenders. [...] |
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