Bryan Strawser

in Minneapolis is verra nice…

One of my greatest fears as a leader has been how to maintain the edge - how do I keep pushing the envelope with my team?  How I do keep my team engaged and improving our results?  How do I keep from getting complacent.

I used to read Fast Company as a great source for “edgy” material - Tom Peters’s books did the same for me - so did talking with other great leaders at my company (and elsewhere). 

I picked up a copy of Fast Company at Logan Airport today and found basically the same fluff that I found in Business Week, Fortune, and elsewhere.  It simply wasn’t interesting.

What are you doing to keep the edge?  I’d love to hear your story.

Heading to Minneapolis on Northwest out of Boston for two days, then off to Baltimore for another two days of meetings.. and then home to Boston via Detroit.  Taking most of Friday off for a three day weekend since I’m flying out (and working on Sunday).

The flight has already had some drama, a medical emergency in the back of the plane.  Still not sure what happened, but the middle seat holder in the row directly behind me responded to a call for a physician and then came back to his seat 10-15 minutes later without any word as to what has happened.

Whatever it was - whomever it is - I hope they’re alright…

Yeah, but is anybody really listening to him?  Sure Salon is, but it’s a liberal rag anyways.

Give ‘em hell, Al. With a series of fiery speeches, the former vice president recovers his voice, his backbone and his place as the 2004 Democratic front-runner. [Salon.com]

Sometimes I feel like driving up to Beacon Hill and doing the same thing…

Don Park: “He eventually became a Korean Congressman and, during one particular Congress session, he poured a barrel full of pig urine all over the Korean Congress because he was pissed off about all the dirty politics going on.” [Scripting News]