Monthly Archives: December 2011

December 27, 2011 · 9:46 am

Top Posts of the Year – 2

Stars turn out for the movie Get Low at TIFF 2...

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The next most-read post of the year was inspired by a win on the PGA Tour.  It had to do with doing your best while not losing sight of having fun at the same time.  Not that any of us ever get so caught up in the heat of battle that we break golf clubs or telephones…

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If you’ve ever held a golf club, you’ve watched the movie Caddyshack.  More than once.  In fact, if you play golf you probably have had something from the  movie quoted to you at least once during every round.  I know a lot of you who don’t play the game know the movie as well.  Hopefully all of you were watching yesterday as Carl Spackler Bill Murray won the Pro-Am part of the PGA Tour event at Pebble Beach.  This is not the typical one-day thing – it’s four rounds at three of the toughest (and most beautiful) golf courses in the country.  Strangely, there was a business lesson involved.  Did you catch it? Continue reading →

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December 26, 2011 · 9:25 am

Top Posts of the Year

Since this is a slow week for most of us, I’m going to use it to review the most-read posts of 2011.  I’m going to start with a post that actually was written in 2010 but through the long-tail seems to have been read a lot over the past year as well.  The inspiration was a piece on Milli Vanilli, the infamous muscial duo, and it deals with being authentic.  In reading the piece again, I’m struck by how little things have changed since I’ve written it.  But you tell me.

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“It’s not about being authentic anymore, it’s about entertaining,” says the man whose Grammy for best new artist was revoked 20 years ago — the only take-back in Recording Academy history.  That’s a quote from an article this morning in USA Today which I thought was about more than music.  In fact, if you read between the lines, there are some great business lessons in there which have nothing to do with making music! Continue reading →

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December 23, 2011 · 10:58 am

Seven Fishes

Our Foodie Friday theme today is La Vigilia, the Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes.  Now what, you might ask, does a nice Jewish boy know about such things?  Well, having spent a great deal of my youth around my best friend’s Italian mother and grandmother while they cooked, I know quite a bit.  I know that they started to prepare this feast several days in advance, as they put salt cod into water to hydrate it (there was a running battle about using milk to do that).  I know that they spent many hours over the subsequent days preparing all manner of seafood – fried, broiled, and baked.  And I know that it all was mind-blowingly good.

There’s one thing I didn’t know, and still don’t, about the Feast:  what does it represent?  Everyone knows it came as a southern Italian tradition and there are lots of theories about the number 7.  But apparently no one knows for sure and that’s the business point to end the week. Continue reading →

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