Fred’s blog about control a few weeks ago inspired me to think about a related subject, delegating. I was never good at delegating work. I always felt that I could probably do it better and faster myself. I’ve come to realize that my inability to delegate work was tied into my inability to relinquish control over the work.
There was big news this week, if you get excitied about the origin of the cosmos. It even came with a picture on the front page of the New York Times, what the universe looked like when it was a baby, only a few hunderd thousand years old.
Dr. Francisco Fernandez-Aviles working at London's Royal Free Hospital has been building replacement parts for human bodies. So far he's "installed" 5 windpipes.
Today is the beginning of the NCAA basketball tournament -- otherwise often referred to as “March Madness”. I didn't fill out my brackets and selections for the office pool. I participate in two office pools: one is a lottery pool and the other is the Superbowl pool. Both of these pools are completely random -- a function of luck and chance. Unless you're throwing darts at the board, the March Madness pool requires some knowledge of college basketball. Therefore, I'll sit it out and watch from the bench. If you're in a pool, good luck.
Recently Rob Portman, Senator and perennial presidential candidate wrote an op-ed piece for CNN. He not only announced a philosophical change in his belief on gay marriage, but also described the intellectual process by which the change occurred.
Let’s start with, I hate that word . . .”perfect”. Perfect doesn’t really exist but this weekend for me it did.
It was an event we were happily anticipating for several weeks. I should, actually, say that we had been anticipating this event for several years because I remember distinctly where and when I was told about this event. And since I don’t remember much these days, that’s saying a lot.