A little bit of snark to start our week, I’m afraid. One thing that continues to amaze me is the absolute vacuousness of much of the programming with which my daughters and their friends spend their time. I get the entire economics thing (Hey! I grew up in the TV business!) and so I have nothing at all against reality programming and even watch some of it. But aren’t some of these folks’ 15 minutes more than up? Continue reading
Tag Archives: Reality checks
Do It Again
It’s Friday, and you know that it means today’s post is food related. OK, so it’s actually going to be a business lesson we can learn from the food business but what the heck. Well, maybe we should begin with something from Steely Dan? These lyrics summarize my thinking and the challenge inherent to any food operation: Continue reading
Filed under food, Uncategorized
Credibility
If you’ve been playing along with the home version of our game you know that I’ve been on a jury in a civil trial for the past couple of weeks. The trial is over, the jury dismissed and so I’m able to write all about it, which I’m not going to do in great detail. However, the basis upon which we rendered our verdict got me thinking and, of course, it became a decent business lesson. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, What's Going On
Consult Keith 