Archive for June, 2006

The Game of Duplicate Life

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I was thinking the other night that we really don’t always have a chance to understand whether we’ve made the right or even, at times, best decisions in life. We can’t, for one simple reason: once we make the decision, there’s no turning back. That decision has implications and those implications unfold. We can’t see [...]

Seeing Life in the Rear View Mirror

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Some time ago, I wrote about judging the future by looking through the rear view mirror. Just this afternoon, I had an experience that brought that home, once again. I was pulling my motorcycle out of the local Yamaha dealership after it had gotten serviced. Now, lest you be thinking what macho kind of guy [...]

On Motivation

Friday, June 9th, 2006

The aura of motivation is not a whole lot different than the attitude of victimization. When you empower someone without the tools to otherwise enable them, you’ve set up a machine which is not only inefficient and ineffective, but is actually counterproductive. An individual is charged with a false sense of self: not because they [...]

A Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

I had an interesting conversation this morning with respect to Marketing. A friend of mine was in the office with a new business partner. My friend and I have done some business dealings in the past and Dynetech is actually handling the venture management of his current business. He is a big proponent of institutional [...]