Whether you’re getting funding for your brand spankin’ new startup, convincing a customer to buy loads of stuff from your company or leading a team of people in an effort to turn dreams into reality, your ability to sell your vision to a wide variety of people is a required skill and a critical part of being [...]
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I’ve always been a strong believer that face-to-face communication is far better than indirect forms. Sure, phone and email are much more convenient, but words alone, combined with poor writing skills (especially my own) in the case of email, make both greatly inferior to looking a person in their eyes while hearing what they have to say. [...] I’ve just returned from a terrific visit to Boulder Colorado. While the weather sucked, spending time with old friends and meeting some new ones was terrific. Sharing time (and food) with old (but younger than me <g>) and close friends Dave and Maureen; Brad and Amy and Raj was really a joy. I also [...] I’ve mentioned before that it’s likely that your board remembers less about your business between meetings than you think. As much as you think that your business is the most important thing in the world to them, your directors are probably on more than one board and many are on several at any given time. So, [...]  April 5th, 2007 |  Tags: Communicating with Your Board | Category: Boards, Management, Startups |  9 comments Most of the books that I’ve read recently have been of the mindless, for-entertainment-only variety. Completely enjoyable and filled with unreal torrid sex, death-defying drug usage, flagrant murder and spies that would put James Bond to shame. While I thoroughly enjoyed these novels while I read them, not a single one of them is worthy of [...] The Red Sox lost their opener today 7-1 to the Kansas City Royals. Curt Schilling, the Sox starting pitcher got shelled, including loading the bases in the first inning then walking in a run. The Sox used up another 5 pitchers (6 in total) in their losing effort. Deja vu all over again in [...] Among the all time greats of classic management mistakes is rewarding the efforts and achievements of an outstanding individual contributor with a management role. To be sure, moving a leading individual contributor into management is sometimes a good thing to do and is appropriate, but often making such a move, especially as a reward, can represent a huge error. [...] |
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