Big Red Car here. Another day in paradise — on Earth as it is in Texas!
So The Boss is talking to some of his brilliant CEOs and the topics of “imitation” and “innovation” come up. Interesting topics.
Imitate or innovate? Continue reading
Big Red Car here. Bright, sunny and crisp today. This is what we call winter in the ATX. We like winter — all three days of it. 70F on Sunday.
So, the administration has begun to “leak” out that the Iran deal is going to end up with Iran getting an invite to the nuclear bomb club. Oh boy!
The problem is this — we promised the Israelis, the world, the American people this would NOT happen. Continue reading
Big Red Car here. It is freakin’ cold in the ATX. It is 32F and it feels like 25F. We are hot house Texas tomatoes. We are not this tuff. Please, God, deliver us from this evil.
Hell, ain’t nothing for a climber. Brrrrr!
So The Boss hears a damn good sermon at church on Sunday that gets him thinking about several subjects. One of them is the privilege y’all receive as entrepreneurs. Let’s talk about it. Continue reading
Big Red Car here. So, we had the “violent extremism” summit at the White House. There was a lot of photo ops. There was even the announcement of the appointment of a CZAR to combat ISIS and other various shitheads on social media. That is going to scare the crap out of beheaders, right?
What we have a is a fundamental problem. It is called perception. Continue reading
Big Red Car here. It’s going to be another nice day in the ATX. Going to be 72F — remember to wear a dab of sunscreen on your daily outing.
Folks in NYC and Boston don’t realize we’ve got our own problems but then we do have sunscreen. The only thing you can really count on in life — sunscreen.
So The Boss is talking to a couple of up and coming entrepreneurs. They get talking about Vision, Mission, Strategy, Tactics, Objectives, Values and Culture. [Boring, Boss, boring! Get a new shtick. Haha, don’t tell The Boss.] Continue reading
There is a brand of wisdom that is only found early in the morning at Waffle House. It’s called Waffle House Wisdom. If you don’t recognize that name it is because you may never have eaten at a Waffle House or you are a thin skinned Tesla liberal (the heir apparent to the limousine liberal in the Internet Age) or you are just stupid.
It is impolite to suggest people are stupid but there is enormous evidence to the contrary and a Big Red Car doesn’t like to ignore evidence. You don’t, right? Continue reading
Big Red Car here on a cold Austin day. Brrrrrrr! It is in the low 30’s but it will be in the 70’s on Thursday. Let’s just get to Thursday, you hot house thin blooded Texans!
So The Boss gets talking about the art of building teams.
Teams are not just groups of folks who work together, they are groups of folks who TRUST one another. Continue reading
Big Red Car here. Bit of rain this morning in the ATX but it’ll be 70F before too long.
So The Boss is meeting with a particular CEO, brilliant chap.
They get talking about planning in general but the discussion leads to the differentiation amongst strategy v tactics v objectives. Continue reading
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