Be Yourself, Advice from Conan O’Brien
Conan was interviewed in the New York Times about his shift to the Tonight show. The following quote is about entertainment, but I think it applies to any creative endeavor, or possibly, any human interaction: “In entertainment, you have to stake out what you think is right, you have to put out that signal, make […]
Employee Performance Reviews Do More Harm Than Good
One of my favorite things about working at Jackson Fish Market is that we don’t have performance reviews. I suppose it’s easy cause there are three of us and we’re all founder/owners of the company. ;) But i believe that even once we do have more traditional employees we won’t have performance reviews. Mainly because […]
Flowers at Small and Special
Our mini-conference is just a few short weeks away. Small and Special, an afternoon for passionate small business owners (and aspiring entrepreneurs) is happening on Tuesday June 30, 2009 from 2pm-6pm in the Georgetown Ballroom in Seattle. We’ll have a total of eight speakers for the afternoon, six of which have already been announced. We’re […]
City of Heroes Architect Edition
Underdogs
The popular and prolific Malcolm Gladwell writes about underdogs in the New Yorker: “What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s […]