I received a bill yesterday from the folks at Exxon/Mobil. It’s my regular monthly credit card bill except this one wasn’t so regular since the $50 bill also had a $35 fee appended to it because apparently the payment got there a day late. OK, so maybe I should have told the bank to send them the money a day earlier but I didn’t and, frankly, the business lesson isn’t about the bank and electronic payment. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Learning to Ride
- Image by richardmasoner via Flickr
I’ve taught a couple of children how to ride a bicycle. Maybe you have as well or maybe you can remember learning to ride yourself. It’s a pretty complex thing – balance, speed, and a bunch of other things have to be dealt with if we’re going to avoid the trip to the medicine cabinet. It’s really about courage at first – can I DO this – and then about trust after you make that first long run yourself (OK, it’s sort of about stopping during that first run!). Continue reading
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Grace Periods
My friend Robin and I were talking about the notion of “grace periods” the other day. She was struggling with the notion that during a “grace period” she was still getting charged a fee by someone. When is a grace period not so graceful, I guess. But the discussion got me thinking about the notion of grace periods and its one I’m going to try and practice more myself. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 