Well, after my last post, I thought it best to shift back to business and focus on a subject with some operational take-aways for us all. I had read an article about a year ago. It was actually about myself and the seminar business I had built. It talked about the fact that I had [...]

The other day, I blogged about the desire, in the future, to provide daily P&L statements as part of the daily Flash Report I receive each morning. I received several comments, both on an off the blogsite, numerous emails, and (interestingly enough),  more visits than I had ever received to any single blog, although I’m not [...]

I’ve spent most of my life attempting to wipe out vestiges of judgment. It’s not that judgment is necessarily bad. I’ve just always felt that observation tended to be more accurate, because it was judgmentally neutral. But, I do have to say, that my fundamental bias away from judgment and towards observation was severely strained as [...]

I’ve never been in the military. My Dad was. He was Air Force. He fought in World War II . . . in Italy. He took his discharge after the war, spent two years in civilian life, and went back into the military with my mom, the first Italian war bride. He spent the next 20 [...]

So my 6th grader and I were taking a bath together a few nights ago and he asked me to help him on a project. “Dad, if you had to boil down to two reasons why Rome fell when they were at the height of power, what would you say?” I was freshly off of reading the news [...]

I got an email the other day from a friend. I thought I would share it with you. Let me give you the context of why I thought it worthwhile. As I have been fighting the demons of this dark period over the past several months, I’ve been attempting not only to deal with the day [...]

General Douglas McArthur said that every military defeat can be explained by two words: “Too late.” Original writing date: May 8, 2008

Creativity is holding diverse fragments of reality in mind while seeking a pattern that yields their union. Original writing date: June 30, 2009

Speaking is like foreplay: too short and it leaves you unsatisfied; too long, and it leaves you unfulfilled. Original writing date: May 27, 2009 What footprints do we create as we go through our lives? And how do we judge those footprints once we’re gone. Original writing date: May 27, 2009

Entrepreneurship: The relentless pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. Original writing date: April 23, 2009