http://www.thommitchell.com Navigating through the intersections of business and technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:03:49 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=450 To paraphrase Ferris Bueller – “Life moves pretty fast on the rugby pitch”. No other sport has the equivalent number of players on the field with so few officials. In Rugby there is one official, always addressed as Sir or Ma’am, and 30 players playing for 2 40-minute halves. I recently took a rugby referee certification class which consisted [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/28/making-way-for-new-talent/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/28/making-way-for-new-talent/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:29:16 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=264 This summer at a rugby match I was watching an formerly good player play a position at which he once excelled, but was now half a step too slow to be consistently effective. His play calling was perfect and he found the defensive holes to exploit, but now instead of getting his passes off cleanly, he was getting tackled and losing [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/28/making-way-for-new-talent/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/11/clients-are-like-3-year-olds-treat-them-accordingly/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/11/clients-are-like-3-year-olds-treat-them-accordingly/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:47:06 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=285 For those of you who manage clients this is not exactly news. As a parent of a 3-year-old, I recently realized there were many parallels between parenting a 3-year-old and managing clients. 1. First and foremost – you have to take care of both of them. Much like a 3-year-old, clients need to be taken [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/11/clients-are-like-3-year-olds-treat-them-accordingly/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/05/7-reasons-gardening-is-like-managing/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/05/7-reasons-gardening-is-like-managing/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:12:28 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=176 Managing a team and gardening share many similarities. Recently while planting seeds in rich soil full of compost and manure I thought about just how similar managing and gardening really are. So here are the 7 ways Gardening and Managing are similar. There are more, of course, but I thought 7 was a good start. 1. If you only have shade to [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/05/7-reasons-gardening-is-like-managing/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/03/leadership-always-matters-especially-in-the-military/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/03/leadership-always-matters-especially-in-the-military/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:21:56 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=108 In the Navy I worked for a variety of commanding officers. All of them career officers and all of them wanted to have successful commands. But what was striking were the differences of leadership in how they sought to achieve that success. In the military, unlike in the civilian world, the commanding officer doesn’t have to [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/06/03/leadership-always-matters-especially-in-the-military/feed/ 0