It’s the height of baseball season so of course I’m just getting around to reading Joe Torre‘s book. Aside from the fact that it’s an amazing tale of how screwed up baseball was by steroids several years ago, there is a theme that goes through it which is one of the critical business lessons many folks have yet to learn. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Book ‘Em?
I’m thinking about writing a book. Seriously. It may be that I will be its only reader, but that’s OK. Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination, right? What am I going to write about? Why am I going to write it? Those are both good questions. It’s not that I have a ton of free time, it’s not that it’s going to make a ton of money, but I kind of feel that it would be a great way to help organize the years of business thinking rattling around in my head both for me and for you. Continue reading
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Woodstock
I was at Camp Greylock 40 years ago when a half million of “you kids” (Max Yasgur‘s term) got together and showed the world that things were changing yet again. Those of you old enough will remember how turbulent and divisive a time it was. Dr. King and Bobby and been killed, Vietnam was raging, there were frequent violent demonstrations in the streets of our country. But for three days, were saw what was possible with an open mind. Continue reading
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