Archive for December, 2009

A decade of Tiger

Tiger Woods was voted Athlete of the Decade by the AP. Regardless of his affairs, he deserves the award. What he does off the golf course shouldn’t affect how people view his game, and people shouldn’t expect the rest of his life to be perfect.

Stuff sucks

I’m tired of me and everyone else having too much stuff. People need to have less stuff and more connections with their community. This post is a little ranty, but I feel better having put it out there.

Serendipity in the city

Human connections are the heart of a great urban area. Coffeehouses are one of the prime places for planned and serendipitous meetings to occur. A lot of coffeehouses are appearing in CenPho and that means there’s a lot of good things which can happen.

Followers are important too

Followers are needed to make the work of leaders worthwhile. In reaction to Si Robins’ post about the closing of Ruby Room, I discuss the need for both passionate entrepreneurs and passionate customers to really build the businesses which will create a great urban environment in CenPho.

Listen, decide, move on!

Leaders need to make decisions. That, along with setting a vision for the future are really the two core components of being a leader.
Decision making requires input. Leaders need to hear input from the people around them and then make the best decision they can based on the data available. But the data is never [...]

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