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Success

July 26, 2012

How do you measure success?   To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the …

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Forward!

June 14, 2012

If you cry “Forward!” you must make clear the direction in which to go.  Don’t you see that if you …

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Me and My Cubs Tickets

April 30, 2012

“When you find yourself in a hole, the best thing you can do is stop digging.” — Warren Buffet I …

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How Much Do I Love Thee?

April 26, 2012

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.“ — Albert Einstein (Einstein, again.  …

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You

April 22, 2012

Reb Zusya, an early Hassidic rabbi, is known to have said: “In the world to come, I shall not be …

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Doing the Math; Not Necessary!

March 9, 2012

“I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by …

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Kissing While Driving

March 5, 2012

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it …

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The High Wire Act of Organizational Change

February 29, 2012

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. — Alfred North Whitehead …

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