In 1995, I created a web site for Robelle, which was the 80,000th registered web site with CERN (there were 250,000 six months later). In 1996, I created a personal web site. Linkedin recently sent me an email congratulating me on being one of the first one million registered users of Linkedin (there are 100 million today). Facebook got me around 2007. I started twittering a year or two ago.
Racing a sailboat is both art and science. It starts with the helmsperson’s sense of feel for the boat, wind, and waves. Getting the boat into rhythm. Minimizing the turn of the rudder to keep the boat moving. We call it getting into the groove.
This human castle, called a castell, was created in Barcelona by a group of visiting youth from the Balearic Islands. Our family had been watching these groups prepare, dance, and…
I volunteer at Dragonboat Regattas in Vancouver’s False Creek. Dragonboat racing is a popular sport in Vancouver with thousands of participants. This weekend I was driving race referees around the race course all afternoon. There was one other referee and boat driver and between the four of us we had no extra people on the water. Which meant that we spent the entire afternoon out on the water helping to run race after race.
You are what you believe. If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way. It all comes down to belief.