Poetry for Dogs
My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.
It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)
Business Fiction
What are the books that every business person should read? For value investing? The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis. For management? Anything by Peter Drucker and the the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. For strategy? Michael Porter and...
Role Models, Dead or Alive
I love to ask, "Who is your hero?" Many people reject the idea of "hero," because it suggests perfection. They are members of the Hypocrite Police, smugly tearing down heroic candidates. (Oh, how popular culture doth crave the Fall Of Man. Keep...
Here’s To The Graduates
It's been one of the most emotional weeks of my life, as I described here. An anchoring moment, the chance to catch my breath in service to others, came at Village Academy, a lovely gem of a independent school. They were nice enough to invite me to deliver this...
Eulogy for a Classmate
During the week of our beloved daughter's graduation from high school, our beloved son's rise into another high school, an opportunity for me to address yet another high school's commencement ceremony — during this week of celebration and delight comes the...
Tattoo, redo
Last month's post on tattoos received more views and more responses than any other post ever on Net Cotton Content. Why? It's a topic that is like a tattoo. Positions are taken seriously, for the long term. It's a matter of judgement: everyone reserves...
Summer School 2011
Today started beautifully, with a flat bicycle tire. A rear tire, which is the more difficult to change. It really was beautiful, because a couple years ago — during summer school — I learned how to fix a flat tire on my bike. And, to the admiring amazement of my...
Carry Forth! (New and Improved)
Here is one of many enjoyably motivating comments from this spring's Personal Creativity and Innovation class at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business: "Creativity doesn't seem so creative." The student said it politely and...
Questions We Must Ask Ourselves
Oh, you don't have to ask yourself any questions, I suppose. But there are some questions — the biggest ones — that the world won't ask you. You are left to ask yourself these questions. Or they might just go unanswered. I'm going to ask these questions of...
Busy or best? (And risk of embarrassment.)
A hero speaks. James Franco to Charlie Rose (May 6, 2011) on how he gets so much done: "I'm stretched. I'm very busy.... "I find that, if I have free time, it just gets filled. I do do that to myself. But I also don't feel like I...
We know not why we are doing.
Finkelman showed this to me in his office on Finkelman Friday. So, What's This About?Oddly, this is about everything. It's about all of us, because it's about human behavior.Dan Ariely on Irrational Behavior.By "irrational behavior," I mean, of...
