That’s right – Foodie Fun Friday is back and today it’s with a question – are you a fruit or a vegetable? No, this is not some veiled “don’t ask, don’t tell” thing but more a question about your approach to the world, business included. Maybe I should be asking about the color of your parachute? Continue reading
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Welcome to the Machine
An important lesson in a very brief post. There’s a story in the Toronto Sun this morning about how Hockey Canada’s official French web site is full of translation errors. The blame is being placed on the fact that the site was sub-contracted out. Reading between the lines, and having been down the French translation road a few times myself, I know that there’s a temptation to use software to do the translation or to employ a non-native speaker. Continue reading
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Stats
It’s a good time of year if you like football. The big bowl games and end of the NFL season provide hours of collision-based fun as well as lots of fodder for the numbers junkies who call sports talk radio every day. I guess that’s not limited to football since it’s hot stove season in baseball too. With the Hall of Fame ballots going out, statistics are thrown around like beads at Mardi Gras. There’s nothing wrong with all these numbers as we discuss sports, just as there isn’t when talking about business. But they’re far from the entire story and that’s where people get off the track. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 