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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Tiger
Like many of you, I was startled by the news that Tiger Woods had been in a “serious” accident. Fortunately, the accident itself wasn’t very serious and Tiger is supposedly OK physically. Unfortunately, the accident’s aftermath is very serious indeed and Tiger is making it even worse. Continue reading
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Hiring
Did you ever play a musical instrument? If you did when you were a kid, inevitably you ended up in the band or the orchestra or in a group music lesson. What was striking to me in that environment was how we were all playing the same notes (mostly) using the same instrument but getting really different results. I’m not talking about the kids who couldn’t play the piece. Even during tuning you could hear the differences between us. Some sounded great while others were awful. Same instrument, same notes. The difference? Ah, that’s the subject of today’s screed. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 