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Fall in the Pool Friday

Some reflections (pool joke) on this week’s happenings.

1. crazy entrerpreneurs - several drinks this week with employees of entrepreneur owned firms. Common theme - being an entrepreneur has little to do with managing a business. I agree, it generally has something to do with starting or buying a business (desperation, no other choice, unable to work for someone else). Managing a business is a whole different thing.
2. everyone’s exception to the rule (whether it’s true or not) - yeah, Bill Gates
3. ego - I won the argument about where ego comes from: it’s the manifestation of insecurity - check it out - the people that demonstrate the lowest level of ego are the ones who are most comfortable with themselves
4. agreed - many insecure people do great things
5. up for debate - because they have a lot to prove?
6. secret sauce - one of my entrepreneur friends complained there is no secret sauce for running a business. There is. It’s people. Great people = successful business. Bad people = no business. Note: bad managers attract bad people.
7. deal with it - firing people is a key way of getting to good people - yes it’s hard - good people will thank you for it - and respect you
8. relax - when I found out Britney Spears was following my daughter on Twitter (I know, autofollow, so does she) I tweeted a version of Britney’s latest song title to make a joke “well f u seek amy” (Britney uses it the same way) - and lost 15 followers in 5 minutes - seriously. lighten up
9. friends - I talked to a great friend feeling a little down who’d analyzed it back to wishing popularity would translate to more people who really care (this person has LOTs of friends). It’s a tough one. Caring means investing beyond a drink here and there. Lots of people don’t get that.
10. Google latitude. A couple of friends turned me on to it. I think it’s creepy. But…yesterday my daughter was driving 2 hours to school and I got to follow her the whole way. I know it made us both feel better. Also, I will speak to her about shutting me down once she got there!
11. taking Friday off - going to do more of this.