Posted on July 9, 2009 by Keith
If you’ve been playing along with the home version of our game you know that I’ve been on a jury in a civil trial for the past couple of weeks. The trial is over, the jury dismissed and so I’m able to write all about it, which I’m not going to do in great detail. However, the basis upon which we rendered our verdict got me thinking and, of course, it became a decent business lesson. Read more »
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Posted on July 8, 2009 by Keith
Mothers provide many interesting business lessons, don’t they? I’ll preface this by saying it was a little different 45 years or so ago when I was growing up in that mothers tended to do front-line discipline while fathers were court and, frequently, executioner of last resort. Mothers dispensed pearls of wisdom in between the tears; fathers did the same in between removing their belts (that’s all tongue in cheek, mostly). Read more »
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