Sometimes I disagree with him but sometimes it feels like Seth is under my table. Very similar to that feeling you get when Dilbert mirrors your life for a few strips in a row, but the opposite emotion (I should hope).

3 great posts this week on excuses, offensive strategy and building reputation. I’d probably say it more clumsily, but this is pretty much my MO (or at least my aspire-to MO):
  • When someone asks you a question, they get an answer bigger than they ever expected.
  • When someone gives you a project, they get a plan scarier than they hoped for.
  • When you take on a project, you finish it.
The last point made me laugh as I’d just had a canteen conversation with a colleague which lead to a similar statement – we were talking about people’s propensity to “strategise their career”: Here’s a thing... forget career strategy... How about if someone asks you to do something, you do it. Stretch target... you do it on time. That’s a really great start.