Category: Status update
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Supporting innovation means supporting failure. #li
I do believe the federal government should support innovation, but by investing in education instead of companies. The failure rate is always going to attract bad press. Brookings: Why the U.S. Should Not Abandon Its Clean Energy Lending Programs, 2011-Sep-27, by Muro and Rothwell To be sure, there are problems here, but one of them…
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I’m not committed to business as usual. #li
Many people fantasize that everything was great before and if we could just get back there… but it's not true. Back then, more people died with the potential untapped. Opportunities were narrower. We didn't know then what we know now. The only way to make things better is to move forward and try new things.
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Learning to avoid playing “catch up.” #li
Yesterday I discovered a fragile a tightly packed routine can be, but it was a productive day after all. I've learned to avoid playing catch up.
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Failing forward: how to decide what not to do…
You sort the things you have to do by importance and when the time runs out, the to-do list is over. That's okay, right?!
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Today, I’ll leave my personal computer at home. #li
I've always said that my laptop is an extension of my brain. I have a smart phone but I've never been able to make it function the same way. Today I feel confident that I can settle into my desk at work, move some mountains of data around, and not become totally disconnected from the…
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Good morning! Trying to fight my way back into a healthy routine.
Pursuing that old first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life routine. I WILL start posting every day again. It was a good thing. I'm so lucky to have all these resources at my fingertips. Now I need to USE 'em.
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Hard at work trying to tame the technology so we can track more leads. #li
I love technology, especially when it promises that you can reach further and touch more people. For the last couple of weeks I've been wrangling with a cool but unpredictable program called Elements CRM. So much promise! So much frustration! I'm trying to keep perspective on how far we've come versus being disappointed that we're not…
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Practicing a demonstration of the new CRM system for others in company. #li
Tomorrow, I've got to show them how easy it is to set up a lead and process it through to a sale. Hmm….
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Configuring Elements CRM at MozquitoZone. #li
I'm chomping at the bit to start processing education sales in the Elements CRM at MosquitoZone, but we still have to finish configuring the system.
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