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The Masters Lesson

2009 Masters Tournament

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I’m sorry that I’ve not posted until late today although frankly I could have written this immediately after the conclusion of The Masters.  If you love sports at all and didn’t watch the final round, shame on you because you really missed one of the best, most compelling afternoons I can remember in any sport.  What struck me beyond that, however, was the huge difference between the man who has won 14 major championships and the kid who is still trying to win his first.  The former put on a great performance that ultimately proved to be too little too late.  The latter blew a lead and his chance to win and yet he taught the older guy a lesson. Continue reading

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Everything’s Different

I’m sure you pay attention to one sort of social stream or another.  Maybe it’s a Facebook news feed; maybe a list of friends or business contacts on Twitter.  I do, and what’s interesting to me is that often the age differences between some of the folks I follow come to the fore in a not very subtile way.  This happened the other day when the internet service went out in someone’s building and they wailed about not being able to get anything done.  I’m paraphrasing here but there was a shout out to us oldsters asking “how the hell did you get anything done without technology.”  Damn good question – thanks for asking. Continue reading

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Heavy Research

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I tried to catch up on a backlog of reading over the weekend since I was in no shape to do much of anything else. One of the piles contained this month’s Wired Magazine and I had to good sense in the midst of my delirium to tear out an item that caught my eye. For those of you playing along with our home game, it’s on page 18 of the April 2011 issue and is called “Heavy Research.” Besides reminding us of a fundamental part of real journalism it also makes an excellent business point as well. Continue reading

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