Monthly Archives: December 2011

Puzzling Lessons

While you have a few days off next week, maybe you’ll spend a few hours decompressing and doing a jigsaw puzzle. Here at the old homestead, the Mrs. loves these things and spends hours putting unimaginable numbers of pieces into place.  As she was trying to finish up her latest 1,500 piece project, she stood up and said something that was an excellent business point as well as a key to getting every piece into the place where it belongs.

Jigsaw Puzzle

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The more I thought about it, the more I realized the entire activity had some things for those of us with business on the brain and that’s how we’ll start the week. Continue reading

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Behold The Radish!

This week, as you might have guessed from the headline, our Foodie Friday Fun topic is the radish.  More specifically, the business lessons we can learn from using radishes in cooking.  If you’re like me, your exposure to radishes has been mostly through salads, at least for the most common variety, the red radish.  You might also have had daikon radish in Japanese food, and if you’re a fan of French eating you might even have smeared butter on a breakfast radish and eaten it to start your day.

Radieschen - Raphanus sativus - Marktware

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If I asked you to describe the taste and texture of the radish, you’d probably say it was crisp and firm, with a sharp (it is a member of the horseradish family, after all) taste.  And that’s where the business point begins. Continue reading

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Are Social Media Anti-Social?

Fascinating article in yesterday’s New York Times about the growing number of young people who are turning off Facebook.

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When I started reading it I thought it might have to do with privacy concerns or with cyber stalking. Instead, the focus was on something near and dear to my heart and which I think is applicable to any of us in business. We’ve discussed it before and I think it’s worth discussing again.
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