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Kirk Glerum's avatar

I loved those sandwich guys; it totally made their day to construct me something new each lunchtime. Once they slapped mustard between two slices and handed it over, laughing their heads off. It was awesome.

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Jon DeVaan's avatar

There is one important story from the offsite meeting that created the ZD memo. Chris Mason agreed to write the memo that was the work of the group and we were all OK with that because Chris was the person who created the breakthrough. We were basically stuck, kind of pointing fingers and/or throwing up our hands about the problem until Chris broke the logjam by saying something to the effect, "Here is what I think I do that contributes to the problem." That allowed all of us to start being at least a little honest about what the negative factors were. That's how we got to the statements about the wrong person writes too much code and other personal responsibility factors expressed in the memo. Chris' decision to be self-critical was good leadership and taught us all an important lesson.

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