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Archive for the ‘change’ Category

April 11th, 2007

Breakthrough

My friend Lisa Haneberg has a new book out (haven’t read it yet, but look for the review soon). To help promote the book she’s riding her motorcycle, Purple Haze, across the country and back. What a great trip that’ll be! You can check out her tour dates here. Lisa also made this neat […]

By Bren -- 1 comment

March 17th, 2007

Hiring and firing, fast and slow

I’m generally a proponent of the “hire slow, fire fast” school of thought. It can be extremely painful to hire slow, but typically not quite as painful as the destruction a bad hire can wreak on a company or team. I recently read Dick Costolo’s (of Feedburner) post on hiring fast vs. slow and I […]

By Bren -- 13 comments

February 14th, 2007

Begin, again. Again.

I have this stupid love/hate relationship with goal setting. On one hand I get all jazzed about a new goal and I get energized by the thinking and strategizing that goes into developing plans for world domination meeting the goal. On the other hand, in some ways I look down upon the whole process as […]

By Bren -- 2 comments

January 5th, 2007

Two Ways To Make Your Company A Happier (and Better) Place to Work

Written by Kareem of reemer.com and HiddenMojo
Growing up, I was crazy about two things: sports and technology. So when I found a job posting to go work at ESPN.com, I stayed up for several weeks perfecting a website demonstrating why I was the perfect candidate for the job. Interviewing there was awesome–everybody […]

By admin -- 7 comments

January 4th, 2007

Book review: Our Iceberg Is Melting

John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber have produced a really fun little book that contains a wealth of wisdom and insight. Our Iceberg Is Melting is an easy, quick read–I devoured it while eating a plate of teriyaki penguin chicken!
The book is about change management and the basic storyline is that there are a bunch of […]

By Bren -- 3 comments