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December 27, 2011 · 9:46 am

Top Posts of the Year – 2

Stars turn out for the movie Get Low at TIFF 2...

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The next most-read post of the year was inspired by a win on the PGA Tour.  It had to do with doing your best while not losing sight of having fun at the same time.  Not that any of us ever get so caught up in the heat of battle that we break golf clubs or telephones…

Enjoy!

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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December 23, 2011 · 10:58 am

Seven Fishes

Our Foodie Friday theme today is La Vigilia, the Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes.  Now what, you might ask, does a nice Jewish boy know about such things?  Well, having spent a great deal of my youth around my best friend’s Italian mother and grandmother while they cooked, I know quite a bit.  I know that they started to prepare this feast several days in advance, as they put salt cod into water to hydrate it (there was a running battle about using milk to do that).  I know that they spent many hours over the subsequent days preparing all manner of seafood – fried, broiled, and baked.  And I know that it all was mind-blowingly good.

There’s one thing I didn’t know, and still don’t, about the Feast:  what does it represent?  Everyone knows it came as a southern Italian tradition and there are lots of theories about the number 7.  But apparently no one knows for sure and that’s the business point to end the week. Continue reading →

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December 22, 2011 · 12:06 pm

How To Set A Goal

This is a time of the year when there is a lot of focus on what we don’t have.  How else does one make a wish list without thinking about what we’d like but don’t own?  Wishful thinking is a good thing as long as it’s grounded in reality.  I mean, your kid may want you to buy them a functioning light saber along with a robot opponent with which to joust, but light sabers don’t exist, at least not of the sort that the kid might see in the Star Wars movie.  May the force be with you as you explain that.

It’s a point we business folks need to keep in mind as well – both with respect to our wants as well as to our fears. Continue reading →

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