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What Fresh Fluke Says About Your Business

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A little food talk to end the week.  There was a great article in the Times’ Dining section this week about how technology changes everything.  The dining section?  You bet, and it wasn’t the obvious changes many of us foodies have seen in things such as reservations (Open Table) or reviews (Yelp and way too many others) or discounts (Living Social, GroupOn et. al.).  No, this one was about disintermediation and the business point it made was something we should all keep in the back of our minds.

The piece was about fluke but the change is anything but flukey, as you’ll see. Continue reading

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Taking Flight

Texas Tech alumnus Rick Husband was the final ...

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The Space Shuttle landed this morning, bringing an end (for now) to the USA’s manned space program. I’m old enough to remember John Glenn’s first manned flight and how we used to gather as a school to watch the liftoff of each manned flight thereafter. It was exciting and inspirational to a young boy and remains so to a man in late middle age.
One thing we don’t hear enough about is all of the things we have today which are a direct result of that space program. It turns out that there’s a business point in there too. Continue reading

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And Now For Something Completely Different…

Carnoustie Golf Course. The championship cours...

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I woke up this morning and landed in the midst of a major. Yep, it’s time for The Open Championship and there’s nothing like turning on the tube at 5:30 and seeing the world’s best golfers looking like…well…ME out there as they struggle with wind, rain, and a very different sort of golf. It’s the world’s oldest major championship and while I know that many of you care not a whit about either golf or sport, I do and I’m driving. Of course, there’s also a business lesson in here too. Continue reading

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