"Maybe your CEO only has an idea, and can only feel the possibility in what he’s asking, but it’s not his job to make it all happen. That’s where you come in. You’re the person responsible for transforming the feel, the intuition, the glimpse of a plan, and the confidence into knowing and doing.
You’re the one who is actually responsible for delivering the impossible, and all I’m asking is that you consider the request, because agreeing to engage in the impossible shatters normality and ignore fears and I love that." - Elliott
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"What is the best way to empower someone? With boundaries.
Tell them what their job is, hold them accountable to it, and don’t let emotion get in the way. After a few awkward bumps they will become a better employee and a happier person.
Happy people do amazing work. Empowered people own their job. Emboldened people take initiatives and find new answers. And with a team like that, problems stop being problems and they start being challenges waiting to be annihilated." - Elliott
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"Ultimately I am convinced that Obama is the best candidate to run for the presidency since Bobby Kennedy. This country needs so much healing. As The Band said, we need to get “across the great divide”. For all the critique from the left, which God Knows I heard in the spring of 1968 when I went with Kennedy–Obama is a transformational progressive candidate. Just remember “the perfect is the enemy of the good.”" - Elliott
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"Here's the takeaway: If you are willing to satisfy people with good enough, you can make just about everybody happy. If you delight people and create change that lasts, you're going to offend those that hate change in all its forms. Your choice." - Elliott
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"Get that? Love all your fellow men infinitely. Buy your investments at very, very low P/E multiples. Both take courage. Both pay rich rewards." - Elliott
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From the Kitchn: "Grilled cheese sandwiches... on the grill? Of course! Here are two brilliant grilled cheese sandwiches that we would love to throw on our grill tonight. Taleggio, grapes, gouda, cumin, and red onion are tossed up in two different varieties that are fancy enough for supper with company." - Mark Trapp
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Oh god I'm being barraged by FriendFeed food posts! I am so hungry now. - Michael Narciso
Looks/sounds great, thanks! Btw, in the spirit of giving back, file this one away for the winter -- Govind Armstrong's Grilled Cheese and Short Ribs Sandwich http://www2.oprah.com/foodhome... Great hearty fare, though better for wintry nights (no heating up the kitchen these days). - Casey
Dear Lord, I am not worthy. Thanks, Casey! - Mark Trapp
I would love to party with this crowd. You guys know your food. - Russellreno
so do you think I can make this on my george foreman grill? LOL - Ruth Ferguson
Oops, that's helping me realize it's dinner time! - Brian Carter
Turkey Burgers on the foreman grill are AMAZING - Mona N.
this is making me super hungry! and NO cheese in the house! yikes! - Susan Beebe
Grilled cheese rocks. Grilled ham and cheese rocks even harded. And a toasted bagel with hot melted ham and cheese rocks hardest. All you people not in the northeast dont know about Wawa, the best convenience store on the face of the planet, they make bagels like that and inspired me to buy tons of bagels and do so at home. Testify if you know about Wawa. - The Kid
"I think something big is up - no CEO and one of the founders gets up and quits the company. The numbers might be worse than they seem. Did Greene pay the price for the missed numbers or is there something major going on. " - Elliott
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I love Highrise. I wish it had more pipeline-management features, but from a productivity perspective it's been amazing! What are you using it for? - Jake
@Jake: I love networking, meeting new people and remembering things about them/ and their life. I find there's a tremendous amount of value in tending to the network that supports you. Highrise helps me do just that. How about you? - Elliott
Yup, use Highrise all the time. Pretty satisfied. - Fred
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@Elliot: I use Highrise to manage the sales activity for my 9-person startup as well as all my networking contacts. The repeating Note->Followup cycle is what makes it really worth it for me. The only thing I'd like is for highrise to "ping" me when I haven't spoken to certain people in a while. How do you handle that? - Jake
@Jake: If you go to the Contacts view, you can sort the contacts by "People without Notes in the last 30 days". That's what I would suggest... - Elliott
Yeah, I know about the People w/o Notes thing, but the feature is a little half-baked. I have lots of people in Highrise that I just don't care about. Better would be a Google/FriendFeed-style free-form search thing so I could do "tag:important AND last_contact < 3/1/08" ... or something. - Jake
Facebook profile now has this, courtesy of one of my friends... pretty funny! - Susan Beebe
These are sometimes my actual responses when I drive by the local stations - especially the weeks when gas would go up by as much as 10 - 15 cents overnight! :) - Elliott
they say you need crisis to start acting... or what? :) - silpol
I always find it interesting to see the amount of fuss people are making about the price of gas/petrol in the US. There are very few parallels that can be drawn against other markets that differ so much internationally between countries with similar levels of wealth. - Jonathan Beckett
You Americans are still lucky. Here in Germany gas prices are at ZOMG across the board already. - Thomas Frütel
I welcome the higher prices. Systems always perform more efficiently under constraint. - Elliott
Agree with Susan - no surpise. When you read peices by Corvida, it's as though she speaking to you. Her personality really comes through and that's what makes her writing so great! - Elliott
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Sasha - thanks for the reminder of the grand effect master feed! I'm going to go sign up for that right away. - J·Phil·Glockner
J. Phil - much better way to track them all from one place. The only ptob is that you can't see the authors and original blog in the master feed. Sarah passed this bug to somebody to fix, but it's still not. Maybe you have more influence :) - Sasha Kovaliov
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Congrats to Corvida. I stopped reading RSS feeds a long time ago though. I prefer my news filtered through the social filter that is FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk
"Sometimes we become indecisive because our mind is worrying over all the potential problems. Rather than looking at the problems consider the opportunities. An indecisive mind will always pick up on drawbacks of decisions. Focus on the potential of the situation and this will help make your more decisive; when an opportunity comes along go for it." - Elliott
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