One of the things we used to do every year in the TV business was our 5 year plan. We’d project out ratings and revenues and expenses and someone in the accounting department would make sense of it all. The same sort of exercises went on then (25 years ago) at most businesses, as they do now, which is wonderful except for one thing. Continue reading
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I took the dog out for a walk this morning and saw what looked like pieces of cellophane all over the yard. I mean everywhere; sort of like cigarette wrappers but bigger. Here is a picture of a similar one:
Turns out these were the dew-coated webs of the grass spider. Obviously, they have been in our yard all along but it wasn’t until the weather conditions – temperature, humidity, no wind, etc. – were ideal that one could see how prevalent they are. You can’t see them most of the time and they’re not really sticky.
How often do we miss opportunities because our internal weather conditions aren’t aligned? How can we be more insightful no matter what that weather may be?
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Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey, Lecture title, 1950
US baseball administrator (1881 – 1965)
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