“Fix or repair guy” I’m a “fix-or-repair-guy.” I differentiate this self-description from a “throw-away-and-buy-new-guy.” Rapid replacement of broken items is, without a doubt, the more efficient course of action. I might spend two to ten hours repairing something that I could reorder from Amazon in under 30 seconds. Silly. There is evidently some other criterion […]
They are the heroes of free market economists and conservative demagogues. The word entrepreneur evidently derives from the French verb, entreprendre, the combination of entre (from Latin for between or in the middle) and prendre (to take or to grasp). Grasping, taking middlemen doesn’t seem like such a complimentary description, but a French economist, Jean-Baptiste […]
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My wife loves Sting. In fact, she once told me early in our relationship that “if Sting ever shows up at my door, your shoes will be on the front stoop.” I love my wife. I also like Sting. So we have seen Sting in concert with The Police at Jones Beach, solo in Holmdel, […]
“There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.” It’s the stuff of night-sweat dreams. You are standing in front of the executive group. The first month’s sales results of your new product launch are coming in LIVE. Everyone is expecting a WAVE. The results show up on the screen. They dribble. You promised […]
Today we honor fallen fighters, who’ve given their lives and limbs to war. Today is a day, among many, I wonder just whom that sacrifice is for. Some would say it’s for us, this ultimate service they give. Not to be unappreciative, but I would much rather they live. The old send the young to […]
“It has been a strange week here in Lake Wobegon.” This is how Garrison Keillor began his long-running humorous show, A Prairie Home Companion on Public Radio about the goings on in this fictional rural Minnesota town, “where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” There were […]
Fixin’ Bessie “What is that?” I was in the corner end of our basement that was my father’s “workshop.” Under one of those 12”x18” two pane cellar windows, sat my father’s hand-built workbench, vise on one end, grinder on the other. The rest of the workshop consisted of floor to ceiling shelves on one wall […]
These are three terms you might find on a business card, consultant, coach, advisor. Are they the same job? Does anyone use business cards anymore? When I was deciding to become a consultant in the late 1970s, no one would have suggested I might become a coach instead. John Wooden and Vince Lombardi were coaches. […]
After more than fifty-five years of working, I retired. We sold our house and moved to a condo complex on a ridge that overlooks New York City. On the rare clear morning that I am up early enough to view the sunrise the view is sometimes like the one above. In my retirement, I write, […]
