Category Archives: Helpful Hints

March 4, 2011 · 3:04 pm

Losing Weight

Mass food production

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Here we are at Friday again so it’s time for a few thoughts on food.   Actually, I rarely need to be prompted to talk about food – it’s on my mind a lot.  So much so that I really need to lose some weight.  I’m willing to bet that many of you are in the same boat.  Maybe it’s that we don’t think of food enough – we just stick it in the old pie-hole and it shows up on our waists soon thereafter.

In any event, of course I somehow got my weight thoughts tracking over to business.  Let me explain. Continue reading →

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March 1, 2011 · 9:24 am

The Forest And The Trees

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We went to the movies over the weekend and saw “Unknown.”  It’s an interesting film in many ways although it won’t be up for Best Picture next year.  Like me, it’s entertaining for the most part!

I bring this up because there’s a great visual at one point.  Imagine yourself in a forest (birch trees in the movie) and you’re walking.  The trees are somewhat impenetrable – a solid wall with very few gaps in between.  As you move forward, suddenly the trees line up – they’re in perfect rows.  You realize that you’re actually in a forest which has been planted by man and what seemed so impenetrable a moment before was, in fact, very accommodating as long as you found the point where everything lines up.  Isn’t that an executive’s job? Continue reading →

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February 28, 2011 · 9:55 am

So Long Mobil

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The very first credit card I acquired was from Mobil Oil.  They offered one to college seniors and I had a car.  I’ve had the card ever since (and that’s 35 years for those of you counting).  My father-in-law actually worked for a division of Mobil for at least that long as well, so there’s a definite reason to be loyal to that brand.

I like to think my family is the kind of customer a gasoline company would want – four cars, a fair amount of driving out here in the suburbs.  So what happened over the weekend which cost them our business is kind of weird.  But I’ll let you judge. Continue reading →

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