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
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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.”
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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
The Smell Test
Here’s the question for you this Foodie Friday. Let’s say you pour yourself a nice hot cup of coffee and go to the fridge for some milk. You notice that the “sell by” date has passed although it was only a few days prior. What do you do? If you’re like most folks, you do the smell test – you sniff the milk to see if it has an off odorand, therefore, might have something wrong with it. It doesn’t have to be with foods that you think might be “off” either. It’s a smart thing to give some produce – melons, for example – a quick sniff because the better, riper stuff has a fresher, more “melon-y” smell.
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Of course, we don’t just use the smell test in the kitchen or the supermarket, and that’s the point today. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 