I love this, Lawrence, and forwarded it onward. One nitpick: in your subscriber pitch at the bottom, the past tense of "lead" (as in leadership) should be "led."
Hi JD! So good to hear from you! I would be so curious how you found this weblog. Thank you for the editing tip. I will try to find the place in the backend dashboard where I can edit this. Another story that I think you will like is this one:
You posted about it at LinkedIn, which I mostly avoid, but your post caught my eye at an opportune moment.
Good writing, about great principles. I can see potentially huge benefit from connecting with Fred Dewey, who now works as a turnaround guy. Let me know if you want his contact info.
Thank you so much. I like Fred very much, but he and I disagreed about how to build Kachingle, back in 2013. I went out to California for awhile to work on the project, but it went nowhere. Still, I respect the work he does. I'm very glad you enjoyed the story.
you have to wonder if anyone had a come-to-jesus moment about completely stepping away from the entire point of the company to do a new product that nobody wanted. It's really surprising how stubborn some people can be when it comes to trying out new bets rather than trying to fix what works
Right. Inside the company there was a deep distrust of the tech team, which was warranted by past events. My point was that we could fix the tech team, and we needed to fix the tech team, so we should not proceed forward on the assumption that the tech team would always be broken. But by the time I arrived at the is company, some people had been fighting against the tech team for years, and they distrusted it in a deep way.
I love this, Lawrence, and forwarded it onward. One nitpick: in your subscriber pitch at the bottom, the past tense of "lead" (as in leadership) should be "led."
Hi JD! So good to hear from you! I would be so curious how you found this weblog. Thank you for the editing tip. I will try to find the place in the backend dashboard where I can edit this. Another story that I think you will like is this one:
https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-weird-passive-aggressive
You posted about it at LinkedIn, which I mostly avoid, but your post caught my eye at an opportune moment.
Good writing, about great principles. I can see potentially huge benefit from connecting with Fred Dewey, who now works as a turnaround guy. Let me know if you want his contact info.
Thank you so much. I like Fred very much, but he and I disagreed about how to build Kachingle, back in 2013. I went out to California for awhile to work on the project, but it went nowhere. Still, I respect the work he does. I'm very glad you enjoyed the story.
you have to wonder if anyone had a come-to-jesus moment about completely stepping away from the entire point of the company to do a new product that nobody wanted. It's really surprising how stubborn some people can be when it comes to trying out new bets rather than trying to fix what works
Right. Inside the company there was a deep distrust of the tech team, which was warranted by past events. My point was that we could fix the tech team, and we needed to fix the tech team, so we should not proceed forward on the assumption that the tech team would always be broken. But by the time I arrived at the is company, some people had been fighting against the tech team for years, and they distrusted it in a deep way.