Month: February 2016

  • Sacrificial Hero Or Abuse Enabler

    Sacrificial Hero Or Abuse Enabler

    A few months ago, a friend of mine had some helpful comments about how a particular problem project could be put back on course. A few days after, he was asked if he could spend 3 weeks overseas getting the project back on track. Quite nonplussed, he refused saying, “When did the hole someone else…

  • Squirrel!

    Squirrel!

    Sometime ago, I showed up at a potential customers office to provide a demonstration of our software product.  When we entered the conference room about 16 employees had already arrived.  Normally in this situation, people would be making small talk or joking among themselves, but in this case, they were all actively working on their…