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The Masters

Masters Tournament
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This is one of my favorite days of the year.  Competition begins today in The Masters.  It’s not just that it’s the first of golf’s major championships but also that it’s one of the big harbingers of Spring along with the opening of the baseball season and lighting the grill for the first time each year.  But there is one other thing about The Masters that make it one of, if not the, most unusual events in sport.   Is it that it’s the only major championship played on the same course each year?  No.  That it’s an invitational?  No. Continue reading

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Sugar Isn’t Sweet

American Idol
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I admit it:  I’m an American Idol addict.  I watch every week – both nights.  OK?  You’ve got my secret vice front and center.  You happy now?  Oh wait – maybe that’s not my secret vice.  Maybe it’s really that I keep finding business lessons in fluff such as Idol! Continue reading

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One Hit In The Water

A golf ball directly before the hole
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I’m always looking for good business lessons in places I frequent on the Web.  Hopefully that explains why, dear readers, you get an awful lot of golf and food references as we explore the world of doing smart business.

Today it’s golf and a lesson we can get from a post on Golf.com which provides a blog post that demonstrates how smart businesses operate.  Unfortunately, it does so by showing us an example to the contrary. Continue reading

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