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Monthly Archives: January 2010
The rudeness of not following my unstated expectations
Imagine the following situation: You invite an acquaintance out for a cup of coffee. They strike you as someone you might like to know better and figure this could be a good way to get to know them outside of … Continue reading
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Visualizing Our Mental Limitations
When I saw this picture on my friend Daniel’s blog, I immediately thought it was an excellent picture of one of the themes that I write quite a bit about – our inability to both predict the future and recollect with … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Thoughts
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Voice Recognition is Always a Decade Away
We recently upgraded our phones at work to a centralized PBX. One of the services provided for free as a trial, was transcribed voicemails sent to you as an email. Sure, the technology has been around for a while, but … Continue reading
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Lord Of The Rings – A Story from Christmas
Over the Christmas holiday, a friend and I were walking to lunch after a fresh snow had fallen. While engrossed in conversation, I walked into a pile of some snow and slipped. Mostly embarrassed, I got up and felt like … Continue reading
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I’m not optimistic or pessimistic – I’m a slave
I was recently reading an article about the economy and it ended with the line - I’m not optimistic or pessimistic – I’m realistic. I’m always surprised when I hear someone say this. Doesn’t every optimist and pessimist consider their views … Continue reading
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Cycle of Generosity
How do you normally respond when someone is unexpectedly nice to you? Our typical response is to want to pay them back as quickly as we can or to give them something in exchange. This works very well with the … Continue reading
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Following By Consensus
Early in my career, I took over as the project leader of a small group of engineers in the midst of the merger between Symbios and LSI. LSI had a manager at another location whose group had the same charter … Continue reading
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Experimental Costs
“If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward” Thomas Edison Science requires thousands of failures in order to find a success. Following the success, … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
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