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How I Won The Super Bowl

I hope you all enjoyed the Super Bowl last night. Whether your team won or lost, it was a well-played game and this year I thought the game was better than most of the ads. I was rooting for the Giants and took a few precautions to assure their victory. I fished out the seat cushion on which I sat in the stadium in Tampa during the 1991 game when the Giants beat Buffalo. I also put on a shirt I got in 2008 at the game in Phoenix where the Giants beat the Patriots. Of course, I did not put on a cap from the game where the Giants lost to Baltimore – bad mojo, obviously.

I’m pretty sure I’m not getting a ring from the team to thank me for my part in their victory. But as I reflected on the behavior, I realized that we might just behave the same way in business too. Continue reading

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Age, Haste, and Waste

As I was searching for today’s topic, I found an article I had clipped a month ago and promptly forgot about.  I’m not sure if it’s an age-related thing but I think we’re all familiar with the expression “senior moment.”

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Some of my friends have them (if I do, I must have forgotten) and they also seem to react a bit more slowly to questions as well.  That’s why I clipped the article, which comes from Scientific American and deals with a study on older folks and reaction times.  As it turns out, the fact that we take longer to make decisions as we age has nothing to do with impaired mental ability.  It also raises a business point.

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The Smell Test

Here’s the question for you this Foodie Friday.  Let’s say you pour yourself a nice hot cup of coffee and go to the fridge for some milk.  You notice that the “sell by” date has passed although it was only a few days prior.  What do you do?  If you’re like most folks, you do the smell test – you sniff the milk to see if it has an off odorand, therefore, might have something wrong with it.  It doesn’t have to be with foods that you think might be “off” either.  It’s a smart thing to give some produce – melons, for example – a quick sniff because the better, riper stuff has a fresher, more “melon-y” smell.

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Of course, we don’t just use the smell test in the kitchen or the supermarket, and that’s the point today. Continue reading

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