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The Bad Shots

A golf ball.

Another weekend, another round (or 2 or 3) of golf, another lesson learned for both on and off the course.  This one actually didn’t penetrate into my somewhat thick skull until I was writing a note late yesterday.  I know I seem to learn an awful lot in the kitchen or on the golf course,but since that’s pretty much where I spend my non-working hours, I guess one gathers inspiration and knowledge from what’s around.

Anyway – I played a fairly good round yesterday and left the golf course not feeling particularly good about my game.  And that’s the business lesson.  Make sense? Continue reading

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Plan? I’m Wide Open

There’s a scene at the end of The In-Laws (the original, not the awful remake of a few years ago) when Sheldon and Vince are up against a wall facing a firing squad.  Shelly asks Vince for the plan – how are they going to escape?  Vince replies “Plan?  There is no plan.  I’m wide open” and it dawns on Shelly that they’re going to be shot.

That quote has stayed with me over the years because I can’t believe how often it’s appropriate in business.  The latest instance of this came just last week based on a survey by Digital Brand Expressions on corporations‘ use of social media. Continue reading

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Losing the War

Picture of an authentic Neapolitan Pizza Margh...

I had lunch today with Gelman to discuss pending areas of collaboration. We try and do this every so often and we also try to find new and unusual places to meet in order to expand our culinary universes. In the past we’ve tried sushi places, Chinese, a hot dog cart, a fish and chips shack – heck, lots of stuff.
Today we decided to go for pizza. We’d heard of a new place in the next town over (which apparently has power, unlike a good chunk of my town) and so we made plans to meet.  I looked up their web site to get an idea of the menu and to find out where it is.  And that’s where this place, like so many others, won the battle but lost the war. Continue reading

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