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How It’s Made

One of my favorite Canadian imports – besides hockey and Neil Young – is a quirky show called “How It’s Made.” You can see it on The Science Channel. Basically it shows you how lots of things both common and uncommon are created. Because today is Foodie Friday, and the Fourth of July, I’m embedding the clip on how hot dogs are made:

Yummy!  You can find lots of clips on the show’s site.

But I’ll also ask you to think about a business question – do you have any sense of how the things your business produces are made?  I mean, how well do you really understand the people and processes that are responsible for your economic health?  I always felt like I should know enough about each person’s job so that I could provide guidance by asking good questions.  That doesn’t mean I could, or wanted to, do their jobs.  But I could do mine, which was to help them do theirs.

But enough business – on to a great holiday weekend!

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd poses a food-related question this Foodie Fun Friday although I’m not sure it was quite planned that way.  Interestingly, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has the answer.  Of course you know there’s a business lesson in there as well.  I’m telling you, where else but here do you get combinations like that on the Internet? Continue reading

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Jamie

As usual, we have a food theme here on a Friday. Specifically, it’s about something that I hope catches on here as it did in England, and that’s Jamie Oliver’s campaign to get us all eating better. As he says on his website:

Jamie’s challenge was to see if he can get a whole community cooking again. He worked with the school lunch ladies and local families to get everyone back in the kitchen and making tasty meals with fresh ingredients – no packets, no cheating. He’s started a Food Revolution: to get people all over America to reconnect with their food and change the way they eat.

Here’s the problem with that, and it’s a good lesson for business as well. Continue reading

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