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Francis Bacon, Top Guns, and the Breakfast of Champions

It’s time for breakfast. I’m having a bowl of OODA Loops, a true Breakfast of Champions. Want some?

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“Go or Check, Mate?”

Chess and Go are two games that require a real time combination of strategic, tactical and analytical skills to master. They have military emphasis, with conquest as an objective, but are worlds apart in terms of what how success is …
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Felix the Cat

How often do we use our nostalgia magic bag? It’s the one where we keep our memories and trusted well-worn tools, similar to Felix the Cat’s bag of tricks. Like Felix, when he gets in a fix, we face problems …
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“Hurry Up and Wait!”

This morning I was traveling. It was a long flight, but the flight crew made great time. In fact, the pilot announced that we would be in a half hour early, at the gate. Great news! I could feel those …
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“It’s Not Your Problem!”

Travel mess-ups happen. If you’ve been on the road for some time, you accumulate enough stories to play one-up-on you  with fellow road warriors. My wackiest experience was when I and a customer were in Suriname (Dutch Guyana) and had …
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“The Summer of 69”

It was the summer of 1969, a hot, balmy Miami midsummer night, and I was between high school graduation and my first quarter at college. For me, the summer of 69 represented a big transition from the euphoria and fun …
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You Can’t Go Back To Somewhere You’ve Never Been To

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 Customer Mambo ….. do you want to dance?

    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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Shall we begin to make it easier for good choices to take place?

“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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My knives are dull … maybe they need sharpening …?

“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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