I picked up The 100 Best Business Books of All Time with a gift card I had for Borders.  It delivers what it promises: executive summaries and why-buys for top business, leadership, sales, and management books.  The information is presented in a choose-your-own adventure sort of way, where you can jump to different book summaries [...]

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March 30th, 2009

A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One reports back, “Situation hopeless. No one wears shoes.” The other writes, “Glorious business opportunity!  They have no shoes.” -Nick

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March 27th, 2009

Step 1:  Don’t go to this dealership. -Nick

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March 26th, 2009

This video is guaranteed to make you laugh. -Nick

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March 25th, 2009

The day all my hotel rewards points from my road-warrior days at Ford would be gone.  The loyalty points were one perk that made all the travel a little easier to swallow.  During certain stretches, I was on the road 3-4 nights a week, 3-4 weeks a month.  I had Gold status with Marriott Rewards, [...]

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March 24th, 2009

For the second year in a row, we took a weekend trip to the desert for some baseball and to meet up with friends. On Friday, we watched future big-leaguer Chris Gimenez score what turned out to be the game winning run against the A’s.  Our seats were in the shade, yet I still managed [...]

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