Looking to the Light

Freelance Worker for Hire

I've been working on a website for some freelance work I'm going to be doing. If you have a chance check it out and let me know what you like and what you don't like. Also, if you were looking to hire someone to do marketing stuff for you what would you want the site to show/discuss?

The site is: The Marketing Agency

From Good to Great

I just read the book "Good to Great" on the flight from Salt Lake City to Honolulu. I couldn't put it down because I see so much of what I'd like to be as a business leader and because I've often struggled with hiring new employees and wanting to compromise a little. In his book, Jim Collins, talks about how when hiring you must first ask who then what. If you can find the right people you can move them into many roles that they may be able to succeed at but you can't move the wrong people into any seat on the bus. Before reading the book I had just interviewed two guys that I was considering hiring to work for me and I knew they weren't the right fit but thought I could hire either of them and hopefully they'd still work out. While reading about hiring I knew I couldn't hire either of them. Seems simple but when you need to hire it's harder than you can imagine.

24 Season Premiere: Real Life Story

I'm watching the season premiere of the 6th season of 24. The premise of the episode is that Jack Bauer, who has been held by the Chinese for 20 months for his help in breaking in to the Chinese embassy which resulted in the death of one of their leaders, has been "purchased" from the Chinese so he can be traded for information on the leader of a terrorist organization that is rampaging the cities of America.

The leaders of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) notify Jack that this sacrifice is being asked to save the lives of thousands if not millions. Jack explains that he fought so hard to stay alive while the Chinese were torturing him because he would die for nothing but this way he can die for something that has purpose.

This makes me think of our current situation in Iraq. I don't think President Bush has done everything right in Iraq but I do believe we are there for a purpose and if we were to pull out now, like Ted Kennedy suggests, all of our soldiers will have given their lives for nothing.