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The Ocean

Ocean Road

There is an old Italian proverb that I don’t expect you’ve heard although you’ve probably experienced.  It goes like this:

“Tra il dire e il fare, c’è di mezzo il mare.”

For those of you who don’t speak the language, roughly translated it means “between saying and doing lies half the ocean” and like many old proverbs, this one has endured because it’s spot on.  There are lots of great ideas that have amounted to nothing because of the ocean, that vast space between saying and doing.  We need to navigate those waters or drown. Continue reading

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Back At It

A golf ball directly before the hole

I finally played golf this weekend. If you’ve been following my tweets or taken note of the snide side comments in this space, you know I’ve not been happy about the layoff.  In fact, the 90+ days of enforced time off (a layer of snow really does inhibit one’s ability to find a white golf ball as well as reduce how far that ball travels) did have a side benefit, one which I think might apply in some ways to business as well. Continue reading

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The Menu

Strange things on the menu here

Our Foodie Friday post this week is about the menu.  I don’t know about you, but I always look forward to seeing the menu when we dine out since it tells me a lot about the chef as well as his staff.  Are the dishes pretty much what you’d expect or do they demonstrate thought about available ingredients and take the diner into new territory?  Is this the same old tired interpretations you’d expect or something new?

Mostly what I like about the menu is that it’s about possibilities.  But it’s also about choices.  You have to make up your mind about how many dishes, the mix of big plates and small, are you sharing with anyone else, etc.  In short, it’s a great business lesson. Continue reading

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