Jim Fister
Hi, I’m Jim. As you can see, I’m a ‘big picture’ guy.- It requires little to no ego; in fact it demands little to no ego.
- It necessitates that you be constantly right, or at least right enough. Try reconciling these two thoughts. Go ahead.
- It lets you write in bullets and talk in paragraphs.
Most people think that strategy is all about the long term. I’m writing this blog in part to get you to realize that it’s really not. Like the boss once said, it’s mostly about doing things now to get where you want to eventually go.
Christ died for my and your sins, and that’s really important. You should know that.
All told, I’d prefer to be sitting on a log in the mountains like the above picture. You’re always welcome to join me there, and we’ll talk about stuff.
By the way, here’s an early 2010 interview/article with MIT Sloan Management Review Magazine on IT trends. Here’s a 2006 podcast from CIO Magazine that I did on compliance that started me thinking about data-diving in the first place. Neither came from the log, so let’s get crackin’.
Finding Ponies... 
Hi Jim,
Cory O’Neill here, from Ridgeview High. I’m looking to touch bases with you, but lost your email! Wondering if you can send something my way. cory.oneill@redmondschools.org
Looking forward to hearing from you!
thanks for visiting my site and commenting! I’m glad I’ve stumbled upon you and your team here.
This is so good I had to send it to you. Lynn is in Virginia but this is a good example of not thinking through problems, and unintended consequences
NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage
Under well-established canons of statutory interpretation, the report said, “a law takes effect on the date of its enactment” unless Congress clearly specifies otherwise. And Congress did not specify any other effective date for this part of the health care law. The law was enacted when President Obama signed it three weeks ago.
In other words, theoretically the law kicks them out of the federal health plan now in order to force them to join insurance exchanges … that don’t exist yet. Looking forward to tomorrow, when we’re inevitably told that they meant to do that. Exit question for lawyers: Who would have standing to sue to force the federal health plan to drop Congress now? Any citizen, or is it more refined than that?
Full Story: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/12/nyt-obamacare-may-have-accidentally-stripped-congress-of-health-coverage/
Yes, courage of conviction is a more approriate term than ego. I did mean self confidence. Intuition based on experience is valuable.
By the way, I’ve thought about the comment. I don’t believe it’s ego, I believe it’s courage of conviction that defines the strategist. There’s often bad timing associated with any idea, and it’s the conviction to pursue the idea until it’s right that defines that strategist in my opinion.
I’m an intuition guy. I agree that it would be an advantage to be confident in your intuition. That’s probably something I’ll have to incorporate into my strategy class.
Some of the best strategists I know had big egos – not arrogance, but the self confidence to know that they were right when they were right!