What’s the biggest mistake you ever made
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? We can keep this within the realm of work. It helps me keep the list to a manageable number. Let’s go back to my shopping mall job, the…
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Discovery and Creativity
A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist was quoted as saying that “discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Arthur Schopenhauer,…
Quoted: CreditDonkey, “How does Car Insurance Work?”
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JOMP versus GELMO
New words! GELMO: Good enough, let’s move on. JOMP: Just one more push! What are your thoughts on stepping back from something that’s “good enough” versus spending a little more time to get to what…
No BS Steve S
Hello and welcome to my BS Hall of Fame, an occasional series lovingly and gratefully dedicated to the people who have called me on my own BS. Our tour today begins with my conversation with…
Brain Freeze 2
Brain freeze pt. 2: Some more thoughts about valuable life lessons learned while calmly guiding my two-ton careening combustion carriage from Alabama to my home during the latest blizzard of 2021 • In a crisis,…
Brain Freeze 1
Brain freeze! Over the weekend, I drove to Huntsville AL and back, about 600 miles each way, to visit family. A good reason, the best, which only took some of the sting out of the…
Long lasting lessons
Long Lasting Lessons The first time I taught, I was one of 5 profs and grad students teaching intro to marketing. That experience, almost 30 years ago, taught me some great lessons: • When you…
Praise highly and move in increments
Some of the best advice I ever received came to me from a professor at the University of Michigan. This wisdom came not in the classroom… I never took any of his classes… but during…
Harry Chapin
Harry Chapin was an amazing folk singer and humanitarian who died at age 39. One of his earliest and greatest songs is called Taxi and there’s a lyric that is extremely important to me: Oh,…