December 2015

New Years Eve 2015

New Years Eve is always a time for optimism. I hope to learn from my experiences in 2015 and to make new mistakes in 2016 instead of repeating the old ones. I hope to build on the skills I nurtured and insights I gained this year.

Quotes For Entrepreneurs December 2015

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Newsletter: Retrospectives, Post Mortems, and After Action Reviews

SKMurphy December 2015  Newsletter This blog post summarizes our December newsletter, you can subscribe to the monthly SKMurphy newsletter using the form at the right Retrospectives, Post Mortems, and After Action Reviews The end of year is always a good time to look back and assess what you have accomplished and what you have learned doing …

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Ten Rules of Thumb from “101 Things I Learned in Engineering School”

Ten rules of thumb from”101 Things I Learned in Engineering School” by John Kuprenas and Matthew Frederick that I think entrepreneurs will find particularly useful. It’s a great book full of very clear illustrations and examples for most of its 101 two-page chapters. I purchased it as a Christmas gift for my sons and could not …

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Courtesy Keeps The Spirit Of Christmas Alive

Christmas afternoon finds me reading “Courtesy.” It’s an essay by Ian MacLaren (pen name for Scottish author and theologian John Watson) that offers a recipe for keeping the spirit of Christmas alive in daily life. Here are some excerpts I found useful, the last finds me still clearly in the “before picture.”

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