GoToMeeting Archives - The Grassy Road

How you know you are a Road Warrior

Having crossed the country every week for many weeks now I'm reminded of the KPIs of the road warrior... You can sleep anywhere and everywhere. On a plane, sitting on the floor by the airline gate, sitting upright in a hotel lobby. You know which seats don't recline on each flight - without having to check the UA web site. You know the wine menu at the United Club by heart. And then the bartender at the Chicago United Club greets you by name (yikes). You've see OZ the Great [...]

In person trumps telephone every time

I've had a couple of recent incidents where I was reminded, yet again, of how important it is to meet in person on critical decisions.I say this in a context where today most of my daily meetings have some phone component. FirstRain is across three sites: San Mateo, New York and Gurgaon and so most of our meetings and discussions will have at least one person on the phone. So we have had to get good at it. And we use GoToMeeting a lot (if you use WebEx today - [...]