Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Ocean

Ocean Road

There is an old Italian proverb that I don’t expect you’ve heard although you’ve probably experienced.  It goes like this:

“Tra il dire e il fare, c’è di mezzo il mare.”

For those of you who don’t speak the language, roughly translated it means “between saying and doing lies half the ocean” and like many old proverbs, this one has endured because it’s spot on.  There are lots of great ideas that have amounted to nothing because of the ocean, that vast space between saying and doing.  We need to navigate those waters or drown. Continue reading

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What’s Your Story?

I think we all know the joke.  A wife walks in on a husband while he’s bumping uglies with another woman.  There are a lot of variations to the joke, but the punch line is “who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?”

To me, this goes to another phrase that lots of folks use on a regular basis.  Lots of children too although not explicitly.  That phrase is immortalized in the chorus of a Jimmy Buffet song: Continue reading

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Back At It

A golf ball directly before the hole

I finally played golf this weekend. If you’ve been following my tweets or taken note of the snide side comments in this space, you know I’ve not been happy about the layoff.  In fact, the 90+ days of enforced time off (a layer of snow really does inhibit one’s ability to find a white golf ball as well as reduce how far that ball travels) did have a side benefit, one which I think might apply in some ways to business as well. Continue reading

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