Better Meetings

10th June, 2015 No Comments Blog , Cornell Tech , CoVenture , Fundraising

Meetings seem to have more champions than does e-mail.  Meetings enable you to “look ‘em in the eye” and are personal.  These sentiments get to the heart of the main – perhaps the only – advantage of a meeting over other forms of communication:  body language makes a meeting a much richer form of communication […]

E-mail Best Practices

20th April, 2015 No Comments Blog , Cornell Tech , CoVenture , Fundraising

E-mail is an oft-pilloried form of communication.  It’s sometimes tone-deaf.  There’s too much of it.  It’s not as immediate as texting or calling. I am reminded of a line attributed to Winston Churchill; “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.”  Similarly, e-mail is flawed, but it’s often the best mode […]

Big Red Scrum

30th November, 2014 No Comments Cornell Tech , NYC

As noted in an earlier post, I started spending a day a week at Cornell Tech this fall.  One of my responsibilities has been to help teach the Studio class for Masters (Computer Science (MEng) and Business (MBA)) students.  The format of that class is unusual, perhaps unique, for graduate programs, so I thought it […]