Category: Business Philosophy
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Born on Third Base
No doubt. A lot of people are born with caring families and comforts and plenty of valuable direction at an early age. Others, with far less. So what? People who go through life worrying that the guy or gal on third, that was born there and doesn’t know it, are the same people not concerned…
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Thank God It’s Monday! No, Seriously…
Thank God It’s Monday! No, Seriously….
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Which comes first? Talent or Belief?
This is the first of a series of posts dedicated to those who helped shape a major portion of who I’ve become at this point in my life. Melissa Lobozzo, this one’s for you. Which comes first? Talent or Belief? In 2004 I became a Property Manager for Paradigm Properties, and my first Regional Manager…
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What Have You Broken Lately?
The 80’s have been enjoying a nice little nostalgia revival in popular culture lately, as all of us who were children at that time are now having children of our own. My favorite part of the whole shtick is seeing all the old things I used to disassemble back then (dust buster, RC cars, Atari…
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If it’s all work, it won’t work.
At this time a year ago, it was all I could do to hang on with both hands. I’d just taken a new job running the largest student housing facility in the country and some months before that, I’d started my own company, MammothCan, LLC. The strain of either one individually would have been worthy…
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“Too Many Mind” or Why you feel flustered
I was watching “The Last Samurai” the other night on AMC with the movie notes (love that) and a scene stood out to me. At one point, Tom Cruise is getting his butt handed to him by a high-ranking Samurai and his host stops the sparring long enough to tell him: Nobutada: Please forgive, too…
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The 4-types of people you’ll work with
George Lois sums it up nicely here in his book “Damn Good Advice (For people with talent)” – God knows I’ve come across all four of these and the only one that scares me is the fourth. We’ve all worked with plenty of people who don’t much and don’t want to do much – easy…
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Success is Simply Luck?
What is talent? Malcolm Gladwell, somewhat famously, has said he believes talent to be the innate love of some particular pursuit – more so than most other people. Listening to Penn Jillette’s new audio book “God, No!” he states that the real trick to doing magic is simply the willingness of the magician to spend…
Robert H Myers 