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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Political Bites: Recall Elections
When are recall elections justified? Do current recall attempts meet those criteria?
Recall elections are justified when enough citizens stand up to be counted to qualify for a recall election. Recalls are a mechanism where by citizens can remove their [...]
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Sunday Book Review: Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott
Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today by Susan Scott
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Best business book I have read all year. This is so pertinent to the pivot we are making with [...]
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Political Bites: Battling Rising Food Prices
Food prices are up in Arizona. Any tips to save on grocery bills?
It pays to shop around regardless of what you are buying. Nearly all of the major grocery chains in Arizona run regular weekly ads. Being informed can drop [...]
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Sunday Book Review: In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla
In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
There were some great parts of this book. The part on peanuts and food retardation had me in tears. However, there were some parts [...]
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Political Bites: Churches in Industrial Parks
A new law allows churches to open in industrial areas. Good idea or bad?
Great idea. Let the free market decide. If there is industrial vacancies and the property owners are willing to allow churches to lease the space why should [...]
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The Time For Arizona is Now
Rant from February 23rd, 2010. Recorded after walking the Thomas building and attending an MPAC session where I stated they were doomed.
Old guard drowning
Imperfections are our strength
Being new will save us
Change our mindsets
Stop fighting
The time to do is now
3 years [...]
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Urban Forest Thoughts from CityCampAZ
During CityCampAZ there was a session on Urban Forests. Some ideas that might need follow up. I’m too busy, but someone needs to push for collaboration here…
Certification of landscapers (that they understand the desert)
Education of nurseries on right plants for [...]
Challenging Agile Leadership
I believe that the majority of the current agile leadership believes that the formula is set and that we are in the adoption/incremental improvement stage. This seems counter to the original writings of said leadership… I have questions
Continuous deployment has [...]
No More Lame Excuses
Cleaning out notes from my iPhone. Found a list from Feb 9th 2009. Not sure if its notes from an event or my drive into work, but the bullet points were too good to not share.
No more lame excuses
Be a [...]
Sunday Book Review: Game Storming by Sunni Brown
Gamestorming by Dave Gray
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Very similar to the Agile Retrospectives book by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby. This book has a lot more activities and goes into some more detail on the theory of [...]
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