Management & Leadership

I'm also regretting that my kids don't get a truly free summer. I'm office-bound five days per week, and so is my husband. My daughter is signed up for a whole series of wonderful camps, and she's having fun. But the daily schedule is more draining than the school-year one! We wind up with less unscheduled, unstructured time these three months than we have during the rest of the year.

I know we parents tend to romanticize our childhoods and strive to impose our remembered joys on our kids -- even when we live in a different setting, at a different time. But I *really* did relish my summers knocking around, improvising, lolling, feeling "bored" -- and I do hope I can also find a way in the coming years to give my kids a taste of that!

7/24/08 at 11:00 AM

Hi Tim,

Nice work keep it up

Daniel J. Ostrus ...

7/22/08 at 6:12 AM

I meant NOT breeding jerks!

7/20/08 at 1:42 PM

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7/20/08 at 9:00 AM

I have Sutton's book in print and audio and highly recommend every single company leader read it and implement steps in their organization to make sure they are breeding jerks.

7/19/08 at 9:17 PM

Nancy- Thanks for the great post.I am frequently asked if this kind of behavior is discriminatory or harassment. I always say, "Being a jerk is not illegal, but that does not mean it should be tolerated." My April 25th post, "Has the schoolyard bully graduated to a job at your workplace?" should be of interest to your readers.

7/15/08 at 8:03 PM

It is so interesting that makes me take a look and read it. I hope its effective for me.

7/11/08 at 12:18 AM

I find that there isn't a satisfactory way to deal with the volume of invitations that come in Facebook and LinkedIn, and I'm not satisfied with the options for sifting through the clutter. I wind up deleting LinkedIn invitations from people I don't know, but with Facebook, because of its more social bent, the question of how to select among your invitations seems touchier. I recently got an invitation from a friend of an acquaintance of mine from high school (really just a name I recognized from our class list). All the invitation said was "I'm poaching [x]'s friends!" What's the value of accepting that invitation?

But I do worry about offending these strangers when they learn that I've officially chosen to ignore their invitation.

The same goes for all the invitations to be vampires, play six-degrees-of-whatever, and rally around one another's causes. I'm with you Susan -- overwhelmed.

7/8/08 at 1:40 PM

Nice post. I had to Google you to see the brain behind the words (btw I used Sidekick and Paradox way back when because they were like what you paint here).

About two years ago I decided to invent a product that nobody else had because it gave total brand and creative control; it had to be a product because I was tired of "improving" things to fit customers' needs to make a sale (had developed custom software and design kinds of things for years).

Anyway, long story short, the product invention is still patent pending and we're not seeking investors, but getting retailers and distributors on board is kind of the same challenge only worse because the people who make the decisions are just doing their jobs and that's making sure they don't risk buying into a new solution when there isn't a proven market.

You can look at http://www.TigerTaco.com and see what we've done so far (and it's not like we're not making it go and having a blast) but I am constantly amazed by how hard it is to really make an impact into our main markets -- and I think that is primarily because we solve a problem most people don't realize they have with cardboard boxes.

I fit your "I'm so confident of the market I don't need anything else" (I've been this far ahead twice before) and while I do need more sales, I really need to get into the places where my buyers are so that they can see a solution. I was worried for the first year about having a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, but now we've sold into and received enough feedback from the people that know that I'm sure it's only now a matter of time ... perhaps a long time.

7/2/08 at 3:40 PM

I'm glad that LinkedIn has worked so well for you! And so fast! It is amazing that we can find old friends and acquaintances while we are trying to network! I have Linked up with many of the other branches and look forward to getting together with them. Good luck!

6/30/08 at 10:16 PM