Monthly Archives: July 2008

Semler on Urgency

Ricardo Semler says: “The real difference between important and urgent is the difference between thoughtfulness and panic.” From his September 1989 article in HBR, “Managing Without Managers.”

Baby Steps

A few seemingly unrelated thoughts, and then a tie-’em-all-together thought: 1. Rands’ recent post on “Saving Seconds” really resonated with me. I forwarded it to my wife and said, “See, this is how I think!” so that she could better understand why I optimize the shortcuts on our PC, or the way I load the [...]

I agree

http://xkcd.com/319/ I love xkcd.