My sister and brother-in-law are in town. We had a great time last night with them in downtown Walnut Creek and today in Monterey. We went to the aquarium, rented a 4 person bicycle, played some frisbee on the beach, and had an awesome dinner at a German restaurant which we thought was a pizza restaurant according to Yelp.
"If you want to hire people to do a job, to be cogs in the system and to do what they're told, you might want to focus on people who don't think very highly of themselves. People with low self-esteem might be more happy to be bossed around, timed, abused, misused and micromanaged, no? And the converse is true as well. If you want to raise your game and build an organization filled with people who will change everything, the first thing to look for is someone who…
“If you choose to manage a project, it's pretty safe. As the manager, you report. You report on what's happening, you chronicle the results, you are the middleman. If you choose to run a project, on the other hand, you're on the hook. It's an active engagement, bending the status quo to your will, ensuring that you ship. Running a project requires a level of commitment that's absent from someone who is managing one. Who would you rather hire, a manager or a runner?” — Seth Godin
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