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Listening To Others
I’m reading a book about Billionaire Howard Buffet and he is quoted as saying, One does not have to be correct very many times in a life time; twelve investment decisions in my forty year […]
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Publish or Perish
In academia there is a long standing understanding that professors must publish their works on a continuing basis if they expect to remain on the staff. In the railroad industry I won awards in 1964 […]
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Your Very Best
I was watching the finals of the women’s figure skating competition of the Vancouver Olympics on TV and one skater after another performed at a higher level than they had ever achieved in their lifetime […]
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Instant Behavior Modification
I was just reading what it says under Visit Our Website below. “instant behavior modification…” Man does that sound like a crock. If I hadn’t witnessed it myself time and time again and had clients […]
A Little Humor
Judge
Judge “And what were you doing in the early morning of August 27th, 2009?” “Your honor, I was driving home from a New Year’s Eve party.”
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Filling Space
When I approached this newsletter this morning there was this big blank space where an article was supposed to be and suddenly I had this weird impulse to just skip over to one of the […]
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The Great Storm
I Wish I Would Have Stayed Home In North Carolina this just might become known as The Great Storm Of The 21st Century. People throughout the state have been stocking up on simple necessities like […]
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The Music Stopped
There is an old song lyric that I haven’t heard for years but this morning it popped into my head. It goes, “The music stopped. But we went on dancing. Yes we went on dancing, […]
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Associations
I’m a member in good standing of the National Speakers Association and last Friday evening and all day Saturday I attended a semi-monthly meeting., Fact is, I don’t attend near enough meetings regardless of my […]
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Cleaning Out
I have been endeavoring to clean up two big file drawers full of speech material. Gosh I love some of that stuff. I must have a hundred hours of speech material in that drawer and […]