I was in a meeting yesterday were the intellectual energy of the group seemed to me to be, our job is to criticize things we don’t find perfect enough. On the bus ride home from the city, I couldn’t stop thinking about this intelligent and talented group of people. Someone related to the group described
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Sometimes I find the biggest challenge in business is trying to get really smart people to think simple. I have seen product designers design an elegant even beautiful product. Than by the time the marketers get their input to add bells and whistles (gotta have em because the competition does), than the folks in finance
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My old friend Virginia Savage writes a column for her local Florida newspaper that I felt was worth sharing here. Besides being a wonderful person who has overcome innumerable life challenges and still keeps a sunny disposition the reason I want to share her article here with you is Virginia is a PhD performance psychologists.
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Please check out the link below. It is too an article on Sustainable Hudson Valley and the Business Network. I am on the board and there is both a picture (poor photograph) and several quotes by me on our important work. http://www.midhudsoncentral.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17050215&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6 <http://www.midhudsoncentral.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17050215&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6> Hopefully this will stimulate you to learn more and consider joing our
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One of my biggest pet peeves in the business world today is the lack of manners. As a society we have allowed a blinding drive for profits to overwhelm decency in our interactions with each other. Yes it is true, that spam, unwanted junk snail mail and telesales calls at dinner time have worn us
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This weekend as I often do this time of year I took a friend rock climbing for the first time. After climbing all these years I really enjoy the vicarious thrill I get from getting someone “high” for the first time. This particular friend happens to be a retired senior executive from a large well
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Yesterday was a big day for me. I closed on a house sale, actually half a house by selling to my partner in the house. This has been in the works for two years and was not a real surprise to me. In fact I have been looking forward to it for most of those
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What is meant by corporate social responsibility and sustainability? When I gather with friends, clients and associates this is an area of endless discussion. In the first book of the Social Venture Network www.svn.org book series “Values Driven Business” the authors correctly come to the conclusion there is no generally accepted definition of social responsibility
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