Archive for September, 2003
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003
Boneheads
This sunday’s Foxtrot cracked me up pretty good. Although I’m a little saddened Dave and I didn’t try it first. My friend Dave and I have known each other probably since kindergarten sunday school, but not officially since 3rd grade by my reckoning. Since then, with a few exceptions, we inseperable until going our seperate [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
Foundations
Some things I learned in my youth – Lesson: Always walk on the outside of the sidewalk when walking with a lady. Teacher: Aunt Cathy. I have no idea why, but we were walking in front of church. It wasn’t a Sunday because we were the only ones there. Outcome: Indirectly or directly responsible for [...]
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Thursday, September 11th, 2003
Organization
One of the finest memories from my childhood was playing hookie from school. We called it R&R day, and I spent them with my grandma. She knew I wasn’t sick, I knew I wasn’t sick, and what my mom didn’t know didn’t hurt her. It was a fair deal for my grandma though, since I [...]
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Thursday, September 11th, 2003
Expectation Management
A good corporate buzzword is “expectation management”. It involves keeping ideas about a project in check, so that your project to properly capitalize addresses isn’t expected to balance the deficit and solve world peace. Most of expectation management involved rumor control and actually communicating, a serious pitfall for almost any organization. I realized it’s a [...]