Have you ever attended a meeting where, regardless of the the topics covered, everyone left feeling deflated and depressed? Or maybe, you had a one-on-one with your manager where your first instinct at the conclusion of the get-together was to go home and cry or spend the evening at a bar? Almost everyone has, [...]
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Jason over at Innovation Zen has a great post up titled, The Process of Empowerment. Empowerment is, perhaps, the most important tool a manager has in building strong and successful people and teams. From the post: [empowerment is] the process that provides greater autonomy to employees through the sharing of relevant information in the [...] Managing is hard. It often involves loads of responsibility without commensurate control; it is sometimes thankless and unrewarding; and it always involves working with people that have a variety of often divergent goals and personalities. And, just when you think you have it all figured out, the team or project changes and you [...] Brad Feld has a great post titled, Fear is the Mindkiller, up on his Feld Thoughts blog. Being a generally anxious entrepreneur myself, it’s hard to deny Brad’s claim that there are huge advantages to letting go of fear, anxiety and guilt. At least from a wishful perspective. From Brad’s post: I have long [...]
While in Arizona this week, I was able to get my hands on one of Hertz’ rent-a-racer Shelby GT-H Mustangs. This is a special run of higher performance Mustangs assembled by Shelby Automobiles exclusively available from Hertz for rental at “select” locations. This is a rehash of a similar program [...] If you want to skip my drivel about the show and just see the pictures, click here. My son and I made our annual pilgrimage to New York City for the Auto Show last week. We go to take a look at the few concept cars there, to see exotics that we don’t get to see [...] Growing up in the 60s, the nightly news reports were full of pictures of death and destruction throughout Southeast Asia. Out of repetition, places with names like Saigon, Ho Chi Min City, Da Nang and Phnom Penh became permanently ingrained in my memory, although always associated with fear and some truly disgusting images. Of [...] My son and I went to the New York International Auto Show last week (I’ll post on the show in the next few days). While walking around the show floor, I was struck by how practical marketing has become in the automotive business. Virtually everything related to promoting a vehicle has gotten so quantitative. Car [...] In my younger days as an entrepreneur (entrepreneur in training?) – all those many years ago – I had plenty of temper and virtually no control. I mistook any disagreement with my opinions as a personal attack and felt I had to vigorously defend my position at all times and usually very loudly. While I’m sure [...] As your company grows, you’ll find yourself frequently seeking approval for grants of equity from your board. Most often, the desired grants will be for new employees, but you’ll also want to use equity to recognize and retain existing employees, consultants, advisors and even your board members. Since many grants will be made, it’s important to [...]  April 13th, 2007 |  Tags: Communicating with Your Board | Category: Boards, Management, Startups |  8 comments |
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