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
Tag Archives: life
Joy
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
Filed under Growing up, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
No, You Don’t
Some of you may be aware of the controversy Amazon has caused by deleting copies of a book from customers’ Kindles. Ironically, it’s the Orwell book “1984”, where Big Brother is always watching. But this post isn’t about that. Instead, it’s about a quote that appears at the very end of a piece the NY Times wrote on Sunday. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On
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