Ben's Blog

AUGUST 18, 2012

At Opsware I used to teach a management expectations course because I deeply believed in training. In it, I made it clear that I expected every manager to meet with her people on a regular basis. If that’s how the managers listen to me, then why do I even bother coming to work? No medallions, dreadlocks, or black fists.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 18, 2012

At Opsware I used to teach a management expectations course because I deeply believed in training. In it, I made it clear that I expected every manager to meet with her people on a regular basis. If that’s how the managers listen to me, then why do I even bother coming to work? Dre, Let Me Ride. No 1:1 in over six months?

Employee 73

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In contemplating various names on a plane ride coming back to Chicago from Boston, we landed in a bad rain storm with the pilot’s forecast of the storm becoming much worst and that we were very lucky to have beat the severe storm. So I called them immediately and demanded they remove their phone number from my postcard.

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