February 14, 2011 · 10:11 am
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If you’ve ever held a golf club, you’ve watched the movie Caddyshack. More than once. In fact, if you play golf you probably have had something from the movie quoted to you at least once during every round. I know a lot of you who don’t play the game know the movie as well. Hopefully all of you were watching yesterday as Carl Spackler Bill Murray won the Pro-Am part of the PGA Tour event at Pebble Beach. This is not the typical one-day thing – it’s four rounds at three of the toughest (and most beautiful) golf courses in the country. Strangely, there was a business lesson involved. Did you catch it? Continue reading →
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February 11, 2011 · 12:03 pm
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Let’s end the week on a food note, shall we? I know – just like every other Friday. The sort of big news around my town this week is that Mario Batali is opening a place here. Due to some funky zoning regulations, our town’s culinary scene hasn’t really kept up with towns around us so this is terrific news. I’m sure you’ve all seen Mario on TV even if you haven’t eaten at one of his many excellent restaurants. What you might not know is that his route to that success was kind of different and that’s today’s business thought. Continue reading →
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February 10, 2011 · 12:23 pm
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As I was exercising this morning I put on “The Promise”, Bruce Springsteen‘s resurrection of a lot of material recorded 30 years ago during the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” sessions. Many of the songs haven’t been heard before. Some were hits for others (“Talk To Me”, “Because The Night”), and others were concert faves (“Rendezvous”) even though they hadn’t been formally relased. You could also hear how some of these songs became others – the most obvious is “Racing In The Street” but besides a lyric change a few of these songs did make it in a different form on to “Darkness.”
The quality of this material raises the obvious question: why has it taken 30 years and why didn’t it go on the original record 30 years ago? And that’s the business lesson from Burce today. Continue reading →
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