The Boogey Man
By brendan at 3 February, 2009, 2:41 pm
One of my relatives occasionally drives me mad with his worrying: How would it look if he failed? What would his wife say? What if he didn’t like it?
His worrying almost always to takes the same form.
1. Identify the worst case outcome (eg usually a combination of bankruptcy/divorce courts/public ridicule).
2. Don’t explore it any further [...]
Last will and testament.exe
By brendan at 23 May, 2007, 4:22 am
My wife and I are at the lawyers, going through our will. The previous lawyer had made a number of mistakes, and then promptly left the firm, so it is up to the principal to fix our issues. The Maserati in his carport tells me this guy is either good at his job or good [...]
Read More >>How I learnt to love bad suppliers
By brendan at 18 April, 2007, 4:54 am
I got a quote the other day from a computer guy, who emailed: “I will charge you $350 to upgrade your Drupal installation to the latest version.” This was probably the worst quotation I have ever received. (Drupal is an open source content management system that I use in one of my businesses.)
So I thought [...]
Problem Solving Pathways
By brendan at 11 April, 2007, 4:55 am
The other week I went to hear a speaker talk on leadership in times of crisis. I noticed during the question time that lots of people were asking really good questions, but I didn’t think of my good questions until the next day. Irritating but not unusual.
On discussion with a friend, we came to the [...]
