On the verge of facing another day of urgent deadlines and unending tasks, I came across a newspaper article reporting that David Kellerman, Freddie Mac’s recently promoted CFO, was found dead in his basement. He apparently hung himself.
A colleague of his was quoted as saying, “‘He was just a nice guy. . . . You [...]

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Throughout 2008, we had an interesting, uh, adventure in hiring, before we found our infrastructure queen, Kate Williams. Kate is blogging the Insider View, as previously self-employed and now working with us. I expect that she’s going to embarrass the crumb out of me. The intention, however, is to be as transparent in our [...]

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I’d only worked within Heart of Business for three months when I helped with last October’s Path to Profitability Retreat. Learning how to prepare for the retreat happened in a chaotic, crash-course sort of way, by necessity.
I stayed in my own room in a separate building from Mark and Holly.
Not once did we take time [...]

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Two weeks ago, a month ago, year ago, if I’d woken full of restive thoughts at 4:30 a.m., I likely would’ve headed for my computer to check my email, spin off on the 50 things I wanted to get done during the day, and begun ticking off inconsequential tasks. An hour would pass, and I’d [...]

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Throughout 2008, we had an interesting, uh, adventure in hiring, before we found our infrastructure queen, Kate Williams. Kate is blogging the Insider View, as previously self-employed and now working with us. I expect that she’s going to embarrass the crumb out of me. The intention, however, is to be as transparent in our [...]

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Throughout 2008, we had an interesting, uh, adventure in hiring, before we found our infrastructure queen, Kate Williams. Kate is blogging the Insider View, as previously self-employed and now working with us. I expect that she’s going to embarrass the crumb out of me. The intention, however, is to be as transparent in our [...]

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Throughout 2008 we had an interesting, uh, adventure in hiring, before we found our infrastructure queen, Kate Williams. Kate is blogging the Insider View, as previously self-employed, and now working with us. I expect that she’s going to embarrass the crumb out of me. The intention, however, is to be as transparent in our business [...]

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