I stop for my 79 cent coffee most mornings at my favorite gas station. The owner, an entrepreneurial giant, has a right hand guy who helps him rule the real estate neighborhood in his corner of the world. We’ll name...
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You open what you know is a Christmas or Holiday Card. You smile at least inwardly as one thing you know for sure is that it is not a monthly bill! As you take the card from the envelope something...
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The term Death by PowerPoint is used to conjure up boring PowerPoints. But Death by Story? We hold stories in high esteem. Much is said and written about the power of stories. The American Indians did not have a written...
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IF YOU ARE A BROWNS FAN AT 1-24, you should not hold any leadership position, in anything. I am not a Browns Hater. I am not a fan either. As you may have heard me reference in the past, I...
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Remember the numbers 30, 15, and 252. At first glance you may think they have nothing to do with you. The simple truth is that you are in those statistics. You are either on the receiving end or you are...
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Hänsel und Gretel is a well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them to follow home. Recently I went to a new shall we say work out facility. I had...
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I used to say “no one liked the smartest kid in the class”. I didn’t mean it . . . exactly. I did mean it “kind of”. I certainly said it often enough. In one blog I went so far...
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The popular strategy for bad behavior seems to be to blame it on the New York Times. When Harvey Weinstein’s behavior was first outed by the New York Times last week, his then legal adviser, Lisa Bloom, blasted the “defamatory”...
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The other evening I sat with a client in my office in a now empty building. For only the second time in eight years, the building lost power. As we sat by my one and only window, we muscled through...
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I used to be a huge Brown’s fan. As I have often confessed, my first two cars were orange and brown . . . . on purpose. And those are not pretty colors for a car. It was mostly the...
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