February 25, 2011 · 10:20 am
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Friday at last and some Foodie Fun to go with it. I have a question for you today. When you sit at a restaurant and the server tells you all the specials, do you ask for one of each? Probably not. You may have also suffered as you listened to a server pitch you some dish you don’t really want but for which the chef overbought the ingredients and needs to sell a bunch. You just say “no thanks” and move on. So why is that so hard for someone to do the same in business? Continue reading →
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February 23, 2011 · 11:48 am
When you get past the speed limit age-wise (that would be 55 in many states), your doctor wants you to have all kinds of tests as “baselines” so when you start to complain about stuff she can see what’s changed. I was told to go get a stress test even though I tried to explain that I’d been getting them regularly for the last 30 years or more. Let’s see if you buy the explanation because she didn’t! Continue reading →
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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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