My first car was a beautiful 1956 Oldsmobile; I bought it in 1968, during the early half of my senior year in high school. It increased my degrees of freedom and mobility. No more having to catch rides with my …
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The YinYang has been a powerful framework for me when endeavoring to frame and evaluate what are ahead, my decisions. The importance of considering the duality of opposing, mutually defining forces or dimensions, as fundamental to evaluating completeness, is very thought provoking. …
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. –Abraham Lincoln
Abe asked two very important questions we should answer when deciding what to do and how to do it:
Do you know where you are?
Do you know where you’re going?
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As I observe the early days of a new era in governance, one that increases the role and authority of government regulation and central planning, I am saddened. I am saddened by the foreseeable consequences of constraining innovation and reinvention that are necessary to succeed, even survive, in this complex multi-polar world. I am saddened because most regulation is earned. It is earned by the guilty and implemented onto the innocent as a general rule. Leadership and stewardship gave way to greed, discarded integrity, illusionary value creation, and the uncontrolled behemoths that emerged in this interconnected virtual business landscape. Algorithms replaced decisions and the perversion of the foundations based on earning and affording what you own turned the American dream that I have lived as a naturalized American into a nightmare that has not yet ended.
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Have you ever been part of something really remarkable? I mean, something that changes you inside and out, and makes such a difference that it becomes a big part of the tapestry of your life? Have you experienced it more …
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Dancing is universal. It comprises virtually every demographic and global grouping of peoples we could think of. It has meanings up, down, and across our cultures, social circles, traditions, rites of passage, events, moments, fun, status and …… …
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Have you ever been completely surprised by an audit finding? Someone from outside your area discovered a condition that was always there for you to see, but you were blind to it. When it was all over, that is, you …
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“The “ordinary” event can be dealt with by routine – a procedure established in advance of a given eventuality. Energies are freed for dealing with the unexpected or creative acts.” HENRY A. KISSINGER. Wow! So clear, simple, on point, so …
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“This won’t last, just like all the other flavors of the month” … how often do we hear that phrase? I believe that we hear it far too often. It ranks up there with “we tried that before and it …
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I spent many of my business years in an era chock full of predictability. In fact, once upon a time, I was responsible for forecasting and business intelligence. While it was a task with challenges and full of fascinating insights, …
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