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Forgive And Remember

We all make mistakes.  Some of them are relatively minor and are great learning experiences.  Others are heinous and offensive and reflect bad judgement as well as bad character.  No, I’m not writing with a guilty conscience this morning.  I am writing, however, after having seen a couple of announcements in the last few days which got me thinking about forgiveness.

“Forgive and forget” is a grand idea.  Every major religion talks to the topic and giving forgiveness is, in fact, mandatory in Judaism once someone apologizes and makes amends.  I expect it’s thought of in a similar manner in other faiths.   And while “forgiveness” is an admirable quality, I’m not sure “forgetting” is in that context.  But let’s see what you think. Continue reading

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Do Something!

Voltaire, one of the leading figures of the En...

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Think back to your days in school (or for those of you still there, recall last month!) You know what was worse than handing in a crappy paper? Not handing in anything at all. We’ve all been there – we have great ideas, we spend a fair bit of time doing research and we come with lots of new, interesting choices about where to take our discussion.  In fact, sometimes we have so many good choices that we get hung up trying to pick the perfect one and end up missing our deadline or handing in a rush job.  Good bye brilliance; hello remedial English.

Business is the same way and I’ve found the digital business in particular to suffer from Voltaire’s favorite enemy:  perfection. Continue reading

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Relegation

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How many of you are familiar with the concept of relegation?  In sport we see it most notably in international club soccer, where the bottom teams in a league are sent down to a lower division and the top performers in that lower division rise up to play in the higher tier.  Obviously, there are financial implications and clubs that are built on one set of economic premises based on playing in a top league often suffer severe hardships when they are relegated.

What got me thinking about this was a note from my buddy Oz about River Plate‘s relegation in Argentine football.  One of the oldest clubs in the world, this is the first time they’ve been out of the top division since…well…never.  This is the first time.  So what does this have to do with you? Continue reading

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