When I posted the article I wrote on Discovering Work Life Balance for the MIT Sloan School Alumni Magazine, I received numerous positive comments as well as several follow up interview requests. One of them was from The Open Grove, a non-profit in Denver that “is an independent forum that provides a dynamic convergence of perspectives on holistic health and well-being.” Claudia Christian – the founder of The Open Grove – asked me a few questions; the resulting interview is available now. It’s only 11 minutes long, is tightly (and nicely) edited, and is a good companion to the article I wrote. Enjoy.

If you know Boston but don’t know New Orleans, boston.com has a superb graphic that is a mashup of New Orleans, Boston, and the area that was flooded. It’s an amazing perspective for anyone that knows the Boston area. The North End, Harvard Square, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley College, and Framingham are all under water. Shoppers World in Framingham is spared, but just barely.

Pascal Levensohn just put up a teaser post about his upcoming white paper addressing venture governance and the CEO succession challenge. I’ve referred to this paper in the last two posts I wrote on signs that a board should consider replacing the CEO and talking to fellow directors about replacing a CEO.

I’m speaking at the We Media Conference in New York on October 5. We Media is being sponsored by The Media Center, is being held at The Associated Press headquarters, and Al Gore is giving the keynote.

I recently posted about the signs that a board should consider replacing the CEO. My partner Heidi Roizen came up with these as her answer to a question posed by Pascal Levensohn for a new paper that he is writing on the “Ten Signs That It’s Time to Make A CEO Change in A Venture Backed Company.” Pascal asked two questions in his interview request. The first, which I addressed in the other post, was “What are the five most important signal indicators to you that it’s time to replace the CEO of one of your portfolio companies?” The second question was “When you have approached your fellow directors to tell them that you think the current CEO needs to be replaced, what has been the most difficult thing you have had to address in convincing them to support your position?” As with the previous post, I’ve started with Heidi’s response and edited freely.

I’ve been chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for the past year. I recently wrote an article – which is up on the NCWIT web site – on why I chose to get involved in NCWIT. I’ve reposted it here for convenience. The most common question I’ve received over the past year, regarding the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), is “why is the board chair a man?”

Several months ago, I posted about Pascal Levensohn’s great white paper titled “After the Term Sheet: How Venture Boards Influence the Success or Failure of Technology Companies.” This is a must read for any entrepreneur who is raising or has raised venture capital, as well as every VC. Pascal is now working on a new white paper titled “Ten Signs That It’s Time to Make a CEO Change In A Venture Backed Company.” He reached out to a number of VCs, including my partner Heidi Roizen, and asked the question, “What are the five most important signal indicators to you that it’s time to replace the CEO of one of your portfolio companies?”

I’m hell on laptops. I fondly remember my first Compaq luggable (aka “the sewing machine”) – it’s still up in my parent’s attic somewhere. Every year or so I get a new one, and my IBM T40 had served me well. I’ve been jonesing for a tablet PC for a while. I tried the first Compaq when it was released (it sucked – returned) and recently tried the new HP Compaq Tablet PC tc4200 (ok, but lousy screen and marginal keyboard – returned). 

I’ve used del.icio.us some over the past few months as I’ve played around with user tagging. However, I’ve been struggling with tagging – I use Firefox and am an “in context” browser (e.g. I don’t want to end up on another web page when I do an action like “tag” something.) So – my use of del.icio.us was a lot lighter than I thought it would be since it “broke” the way I browse.