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.)
Spousal Recruitment, Retention and Attrition
About 18 months ago, I gave a dinner speech to a national assembly of undergraduate business students at The Ohio State University. (You might remember "MBAs In Heat.")Well, ever since then, the idea of that speech has been percolating, growing, gnawing....
Teaching Creativity
I am so glad to once again be teaching my course on creativity, starting tomorrow at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Now: Personal Creativity and Innovation (BUS-MHR 390)With the guidance of Michael Camp, I've taken the best of nearly a...
CCAD Marketing Midterm Exam
Imagine you have just been hired at Ten Pin Alley & Spikes. You can learn about them at their website. (The URL is http://www.TenPinAlleyAndSpikes.com/.) The owner asks you, "Do you know anything about marketing?" "Yes," you say. "Wonderful," says the owner. "What...
Sunrise, Sunset
When you buy a new calendar in the stationery store, do you ever pause to think of the people who made the calendar? It's a product, sure, but — behind every product — are a bunch of people thinking it through. Years ago, when Alisa went back to graduate school, a...
Making Peace
When I'm wrong and I know it, I apologize. (That's part of my handshake document.)That's easy.But what if I am not wrong — dag nab it — and you are the one that's wrong here?Well, then, I'll just pull up a chair and wait for you to apologize to me....
“The Best Present Ever”
Thanks to the talented AmyD (and her generous friend Holly) for this great gift-giving suggestion. It's a beautiful reminder that the best gifts are given, but not necessarily bought.
What is Art?
It's been a generous week, riding the cultural gravy train with my mother. Last weekend, we attended a live telecast — in our local cinema — of The Metropolitan Opera from New York City. Then, last night, New York City came to us in the form of the Merce...
Dude. Your shirt rocks.
Here are three quick items from the world of tee shirts. 1. Homage has the best designs. It's like a Time Machine, where history is re-told and memory is paid homage — one tee shirt at a time. 2. Net Cotton Content is willing to introduce its own tee shirt. It...
Who Are You?
It's my job to write and your job to read. (And, of course, both our jobs to think.) Except today. Once a year, I ask the readers of Net Cotton Content to talk back. Here's this year's five short questions. Please reply. Click here to take the survey....
Thanks, Boss
Dear Boss,What a great company retreat. Thanks for lunch, dinner and lunch again. Thanks for the learning. And thanks placing me in a pond of brilliant fish.Here's what I didn't have time to say...I sold my first company a couple years ago. Now I've...
