What a strange and wonderful weekend. Tom Watson‘s wonderful performance, Walter Cronkite‘s passing, and an anniversary (not mine!) that shows what we can accomplish if we all think “can” and not focus on “can’t”. So much inspiration, some sadness, but mostly amazement along with a few lessons. Continue reading
Category Archives: Thinking Aloud
Grilled BBQ
It’s Friday so we’re back to food! Today’s discussion is how one cooking term can mean something totally different to two different people, a lesson which, of course, I think extends to business as well. I had a chat the other day with someone about cooking a particular dish and they referred to it as “barbecued”. I asked them what they meant because that’s one of those nebulous terms that can mean any of several things depending on the speaker’s point of reference. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud
Mentors
I got word yesterday of the passing of Mark Mandala. For most of you, the name isn’t familiar. For those of you who worked at ABC in the late 1970’s through the early 1990’s, Mark was an unforgettable character. He could be loud, rude, inappropriate (even by the way less PC standards of those days), and scary. Most of the time, he was brilliant, hysterically funny, and a damn fine executive who began to guide ABC through the changes in network TV that began then as cable TV (“who is going to pay for TV – that’s nuts?) became more prevalent. Continue reading
Filed under Growing up, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 