Another business lesson from politics today. Then again, politics is a business so I’m not sure why I sound a little surprised. Despite the fact that I don’t express political points of view in this space, I guess you can tell I pay a lot of attention to that business as well as the ones I write about more often.
We’re in the midst of primary season for one party. Unless you’re under a rock, you have probably heard that former governor Romney just won the Florida primary pretty convincingly and there are calls for other candidates to admit defeat and let Romney focus on the general election. The three other remaining candidates have refused to pack it in, and therein lies the business lesson. Continue reading
Tag Archives: politics
Jumping To Conclusions
Filed under Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On
Inquiring Minds
Since I try to write a little something each weekday, you might have noticed that I burn through a lot of topics. One thing I do is to clip articles that provoke a thought (although frankly I’d like it if you guys would send me more topic suggestions – hint hint).
A story I clipped back in December had to do with the release of a study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press about how much of a factual grasp we all have of basic facts with respect to current events. Let’s see if your reaction is the same as mine. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints
Won’t Get Fooled Again?
There are so many things about which to write this morning and yet I find myself reverting to a few common themes expressed in this space over the last few years. It just amazes me that Santayana‘s maxim about the past is given so much lip service and yet ignored in practice.
I’ll apologize upfront if I sound kind of angry but I kind of am. You see, things such as earthquakes, which we can’t control, are very different from things such as knee-jerk reactions to malicious underhandedness, which we can. In this and other cases it costs people their jobs and embarrasses their organizations for absolutely no reason. I’ll also tell you upfront that this is NOT a political rant because in this case although the incident was politically motivated the business implications could not be more clear. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks
Consult Keith 