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Winning From Losing

I love this!  Honda has been doing a series of web videos about various topics.  They’re short, well-produced, and fascinating.  I am very fond of one of their latest batch, which is all about not being afraid to fail and the lessons learned from failure. Continue reading

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All Roads…

I spoke with a couple of friends today who got to the same place from very different beginnings.  One has been self-employed for 30 years; the other has worked for a number of prominent companies for about as long.  Both are unhappy, both are concerned, both want to make changes in their lives.  And somehow both ended up with the same realization. Continue reading

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Your Long Term Plan

A rouletted revenue stamp, US 1898
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One of the things we used to do every year in the TV business was our 5 year plan. We’d project out ratings and revenues and expenses and someone in the accounting department would make sense of it all. The same sort of exercises went on then (25 years ago) at most businesses, as they do now, which is wonderful except for one thing. Continue reading

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