Lessons in Management: Get Your Hands Dirty

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. -Adlai Stevenson Looking back on other jobs I’ve had, the managers I have always had the most respect for and consider to be “the best” managers I’ve had have been the ones that don’t mind getting their hands dirty. [...]

WordPress Podcast

For those of you with nothing to do, pop on over and have a listen to the WordPress podcast where I was a guest cohost for a second episode in a row. It was a lot of fun. Charles is a great guy to record with.

Lessons in Management: Take Ownership

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. -Rudy Giuliani When you own a house, you end up paying for everything. You pay for the new roof you have to put on. You pay for the deck off the back. You pay for the swimming pool. And you pay when your foundation is [...]

Lessons in Management: Push the Limit

Hell, there are no rules here–we’re trying to accomplish something. -Thomas Edison Over the past eight months, the tech team at b5media has accomplished amazing things. We created a new corporate website in under 2 weeks. We’ve figured out how to fix problems of scaling. We’ve created internal tools for our VCs to see our [...]

Lessons in Management: Let Go

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their result. ~ Gen. George Patton It has been 8 months since I was catapulted from a volunteer, giving of my time on evenings and weekends, and working a thankless desktop support job at a large company, [...]

98% of WordPress Blogs Vulnerable

Did that headline get your attention? It should because it’s true. It may or may not actually be 98% but it is high! Do me a favor and if you use WordPress, go check what version you are running. You can find it at the bottom of your WordPress admin screen. Now that you’ve done [...]

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