Leadership & Business: I Write About Reality--And I Want to Share It!

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Street Heat:
Ever burn your foot walking on hot asphalt in the summer? That’s because black absorbs heat—while white reflects it. Well, in case you haven’t noticed, modern cities are covered in the black stuff. Dutch construction firm Ooms is now heading its headquarters by running water pipes under the street. Some of them collect heat in the summer and run deep into the ground where they heat water via a heat exchanger. That heated water is stored for winter—a sort of battery, if you will. In fact to take it a step further, the water is returned to the ground after heating the building, by passing under the street again. The residual heat in the water, now only a few degrees above freezing, melts any snow or ice on the road surface. The water is then stored—used cold to cool the building—before being run under the asphalt again to prepare for winter. Brilliant!

One of the burdens you accept when you decide to begin writing about what’s on your mind is criticism. That’s because it’s all but a statistical certainty that 100% of the population—and even 100% of your readers—won’t agree with everything you write.

I’ve also been asked lately why I write about things like economics and politics, while my company’s focus is performance excellence. The reason there is simple, but even simple answers can have more than one part to them. The first part of the answer is that I don’t see politics and economics all that differently than business and what I write about are my conclusions based on DATA driven analysis. The second part of the answer is even simpler than that; these topics interest me. I spend a lot of time studying them and figure my investment in time and analysis isn’t really worth much if I don’t share it. In fact, to quote a friend who recently published a terrific book, “It’s not reality unless it’s shared.” I write about reality—and I want to share it.

To recap some of what I’ve written about in the past.

January 2nd, 2008: I said the recession had started. In June the economists were still talking about how we had skirted one. November 26th, 2008: I said the depression had started. The economists are still denying it, but just yesterday, Paul Volker, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors did call it a GREAT Recession (they’re “easing” us into it). On December 10th, I wrote of the need to let at least one of the big three automakers go bankrupt. How much money will have been wasted delaying that inevitable conclusion? The point is that the data leading to all of these conclusions is fairly straight forward—and if we’d listen to the data, instead of emotions and politicians, we might actually solve problems a little faster. So I will continue to write about a range of topics broader than the day to day focus, because as President Obama just demonstrated by appointing both a Chief Performance Officer and a Chief Technology Officer to focus on technology innovation, the principles that we espouse here at BMGI apply to just about anything—and everything.

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