The Same, But Different Mariquita and I spent several hours on the dueling laptops this evening. It turned out, we were both working on OD things (Organization Development). Mariquita’s project, for her Masters’ Program at Amercan U — was writing a lengthy paper on data collection and feedback as a major function of OD, as applied to a specific case of a startup going through growing pains (not Return Path…a case given by the teacher). Her main comment — “they’ve got problems, man.” I was working on an overhaul of Return Path’s management structure and what I call M/O/S (management operating system), based on the results of this year’s 360 Review process. My main comment — “we’ve got problems, man.” …