I have been noodling a little. No, not this kind: wikipedia.org/wiki/noodling … yikes! The kind in the photo above. Grandma Fisher always warned me that this could be dangerous; however, I think I survived it without a lot of cerebral damage (you can’t damage what you don’t have). What I have been noodling about is…

I was fascinated with Mike Liddy (technical co-founder of FDR) and his ability to dissect problems into subsets and attack them. He had a very simple process that was very effective. Mike would come into a meeting (invited or not) and just observe. I still remember the first time I ever met him; it was…

This is something I have shared a number of times over the years with entrepreneurs (and others) that find themselves in the position of leadership. It may be that you report to a board or maybe just a traditional reporting role in a business. (At the end of the day, everyone has a boss in…