Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Cold and windy sunset


Feet on sand!


The following night I got out a bit earlier, and it was a bit less windy!


Still not summer yet though, at least the beach was mine.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

using my MBTI(INTJ) to lead and manage successful teams

Just getting back from a few day course, leading and managing successful teams. The basic ideas of the course was to use Myers Briggs Type Indicators to assess your own type and style, and understand how to adapt your own leadership style to others within your team. A foundation for team synergy was built, where depending on the nature of the project-- different types within a group may be best suited to handle certain aspects of the project and can complement each others natural working styles.

Some points of interest when trying to understand INTJ's (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging) that really struck a chord with me.

-Strong vision for the organization, and loyal to the organization
-Thinking about issues of the future, understanding trends
-Hungry for problems to solve, sometimes will take on others problems, it is painful for us to see a problem and not be able to do anything about it.
-Open to any and all ideas that can be put to use
-Change and improve upon anything
-Like small teams, with significant contributions from each member
-Hate redundancy, seek efficiency
-Procedures tend to be followed if they are efficient or their value is explained
-Prefer precise communication
-Like to bring theories into actualities

If you know me through work, I think this aligns very well with what I tend to do for the companies which I have worked for. If you know me personally, some of these traits also come through. Some of my prior blog posts also tend to highlight some of these characteristics. It is good to be able to understand your own type well first, and that gives perspective as to others which may have different types/styles and how you may need to adjust to meet their needs.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

no more pathfinder wobble

After doing some research of the wobble behavior,

The rear lower and upper links have rubber bushings that wear out. I picked up some poly bushings from 4x4parts.com

The challenging part has been getting the old bolts off, I've been spraying, torching, cutting, grinding the bolts off and its been a lot more work and hours than I had hoped...