August 4, 2009 · 11:56 am
This is not a political blog but from time to time we do find lessons in the world of politics which apply to business. I’m saying this up front since the topic from which I’m pulling a lesson today – the whole Obama birth certificate controversy – is totally political and raises strong feelings on both sides. Yet within the heated arguments is a truth which holds for either side. Continue reading →
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Tagged as advice, barack obama, BBC, Bill Clinton, Birth certificate, Birther, business, business thinking, Kenya, life, Obama, politics, Reality checks, technology
August 3, 2009 · 6:21 am
There has always been a sub-culture of cheating in sports. In NASCAR,it’s almost a religion, the Patriots took it to a new level in football with their taping of signals, and hockey there is actually a piece of goal tending equipment called a cheater bar – it’s sewn onto a goalies glove. I guess this is all in the spirit of if you don’t get caught it’s not cheating but what’s been going on in baseball for decades is different. Continue reading →
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July 31, 2009 · 9:21 am
At the end of the D.A. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop, there comes a performance that took place on a cold June morning in 1967. Everyone was half asleep, all the big guns like Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas had been fired. Yet while those guns had elicited many emotions, it took this one last one to bring out pure, unmitigated joy. Continue reading →
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Tagged as 1960s, advice, Bands and Artists, business, business thinking, Jimi Hendrix, life, life lessons, Monterey Pop, Monterey Pop Festival, Music, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, teamwork