Went to a Philly Flyers game last night courtesy of the generous folks here at the Philly office. I haven’t been back to the First Union Center since I attended the Madonna
concert. Now I was up in a club suite stocked full of food and drinks. It was very nice. Wish I could bring some of my Houston clients up there to enjoy that. A club suite
in Houston would cost an arm, a leg, six lungs, fives kidneys, four livers, three hearts, two testicles and a partridge in a pear tree.


I have been working about 50 to 60 hours each week. I am around for the 9 to 5 hours but I keep going when I return to the hotel. I also put in some time when I’m flying
back and forth on the airplane. I usually spend about 16 hours in transit as I commute to and from Philly. Many of us, including myself, only charge for 40 hours of work.
The idea is that I try to do as many things as possible with my time, including developing solutions to problems that are going to pop up down the road. By spending a few
hours here and there developing a strategy for the future of a project, I’m able to avoid transition problems and change management issues.
This philosophy has worked flawlessly for me during the past 5 years and led to many successful projects. Michael Capellas, CEO of Compaq, once told a local Houston paper
that he was able to rise to the top by taking
on more responsibilities than he’d been given. His success was attributable to attacking additional responsibilities that he saw the need for. Just because you’re not
assigned to a problem doesn’t mean you can’t identify and eliminate them before they appear. I respect that philosophy. Let’s all join in a chorus of Aretha Franklin’s
”Respect.” You start. No, really. I’m serious.


Bumpy plane. More later.

Ask Your CoWorker

Today’s Question: ”If captured, how should the U.S. punish Osama bin Ladin?”

”We could eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”		”Open an amusement park where sucker punching him in the gut is the only ride.”
”First, we’ll force him to star in some gay porn…”		”Involuntary sex change?”
”Make him wear a pink frilly tu-tu. I have one at home, actually.”		”Tattoo ‘USA Sucks!’ on his forehead and then drop him off in south Philly.”
”Have every taxi in New York run over his dead carcass. Dude, Pay Per View!”		”Let’s experiment and see how much dog poop he can eat at one sitting.”