Another business lesson from politics today. Then again, politics is a business so I’m not sure why I sound a little surprised. Despite the fact that I don’t express political points of view in this space, I guess you can tell I pay a lot of attention to that business as well as the ones I write about more often.
We’re in the midst of primary season for one party. Unless you’re under a rock, you have probably heard that former governor Romney just won the Florida primary pretty convincingly and there are calls for other candidates to admit defeat and let Romney focus on the general election. The three other remaining candidates have refused to pack it in, and therein lies the business lesson. Continue reading
Category Archives: Thinking Aloud
Jumping To Conclusions
Filed under Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On
Age, Haste, and Waste
As I was searching for today’s topic, I found an article I had clipped a month ago and promptly forgot about. I’m not sure if it’s an age-related thing but I think we’re all familiar with the expression “senior moment.”
Image via Wikipedia
Some of my friends have them (if I do, I must have forgotten) and they also seem to react a bit more slowly to questions as well. That’s why I clipped the article, which comes from Scientific American and deals with a study on older folks and reaction times. As it turns out, the fact that we take longer to make decisions as we age has nothing to do with impaired mental ability. It also raises a business point.
Filed under Growing up, Thinking Aloud
Warranties
Image via Wikipedia
I’m sure you’ve all seen Animal House. It’s one of my favorite movies and most of the guys (and it is mostly guys) I know quote from it fairly regularly. One of the lines I find myself repeating way too often comes from Otter to Flounder, the hapless freshman who lends the frat his brother’s car only to see it destroyed:
Flounder, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You fucked up… you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it! Maybe we can help.
I thought about that this weekend listening to some of the news but it triggered a business thought as well. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 