Sonny smiled grimly. The wily Turk had planned well but he had been unlucky. The old man was alive and so it was war. The Godfather, Chapter 2, Page 85, Paragraph 1, Sentences 8 – 10 One man dies, and not only is there surrender, there is peace. The same man when hit, refuses to [...]
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So how’d it go? What sort of year was 2010? I’d really like to hear your story! Was it a great year, middling, or not so good? What was the worst moment, and then, what happened next? What unforeseen challenges arose, especially those that made you think you’d just not make it? How did you [...]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I’ve meditated long and hard on what I wished to share with you all about tomorrow’s holiday of gratitude. And, I expect it will be pretty hard to believe, but here’s what I’ve decided to be most grateful for, from a business point of view if you will. There are two things. First, I’m grateful [...]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
When I first talked with Pat, I was struck by his ability to bring out one’s inner expression of looking at things in a completely different way. Let me explain, Pat asked me to look at the “Diagram” you know, the one with the 2 circles that cross together. Having Pat on the phone and [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
The photos below are from the façade of the old postal building, now the site of the Smithsonian Institute’s Postal Museum. This wonderful building is also the site of one of Washington DC’s best brewery/restaurants, Capitol City Brewery. It’s awfully tempting to discuss this mission statement in depth, and also to apply it to today’s [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
We considered the so-simple, but so-powerful guidance of Pythagoras in our last post, with this passage… Pythagoras established a strict routine for his students, paying particular attention to the hour of waking and the hour of falling asleep. As soon as you awake, in order lay the actions to be done the coming day. Similarly, [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The response to our notice, sent out yesterday, in which we discussed Facebook has been rather amazing, actually. If you haven’t signed up for Facebook yet, you must, and let me tell you why. Then, I’ll speak just a little bit about Linked In, and then I’ll be done for this week! Here’s what has [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
I wish you could have seen my son Nicholas’ shocked dismay when I informed him that I’ll never make a blog post on a Friday. Here’s the story, and I will write up a second post in a moment, closing out this week by discussing some of this week’s further learning about social networking, next. [...]
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Last week, one of my clients hit me pretty hard about the question of converting a dream or desire into a single day’s worth of work, and drawing the victory or defeat line for just one day. I’d been working through several different strategies for my upcoming Lesson Two, of the To Learn from the [...]
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
You won’t believe me, but that’s okay. About what? Well, I actually did not plan to hit you with my favorite diagram again…but, I have no choice! I won’t post it again, but if you don’t have it burned into your mind’s eye already, just scroll down to the post previous to this one and [...]
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...from The Consigliori.
