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Here’s the drill. Why do we really buy drills? You don’t buy it simply to own it, as a symbol of your personality or to gain status. The marketing textbooks all agree, you don’t buy…

Light a Candle or Curse the Darkness: The Escalator Clause Experienced while walking past a delayed elevator with a working escalator a few feet away: A person was pounding on the “up” button and swearing…

It’s still work They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. Hmm. I love what I do but it’s still work. When you work for someone else……

What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? (part 3) And what would I do next time? I’ve been writing about my biggest mistake, and that was the broken relationship with my secretary at my first…

What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? (part 2) And why didn’t I fix it? As a marketing professor, I often ask my students to work in teams on behalf of a real-world client. The…

What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? We can keep this within the realm of work. It helps me keep the list to a manageable number. Let’s go back to my shopping mall job, the…

A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist was quoted as saying that “discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Arthur Schopenhauer,…