Why to Fly Jet Blue and Not American
We’re on our way to see our new granddaughter in LA. I called Jet Blue after our horrible experience with American going to Miami with Maria needing a wheelchair because…
Learning and Applying Should Be in Propinquity
How much of your college education is actually relevant today, or was even relevant upon graduation? I learned a great deal of applicable, relevant stuff in grammar school, because the…
Driving for Better and Worse
Here in London, the streets are often very narrow, confusing, and hard to navigate (especially around all the Rolls Royces). Some two-way streets allow only room for one car at…
How to Create A Highly Effective and Highly Profitable Interactive Offering
Here’s my counterintuitive approach to creating a highly valuable offering, whether “live” or remote: Create a highly compelling title and premise for your ideal buyer. Choose a date and city…
And Next: Self-Chewing Food
The Verge reports that hundreds of accidents and dozens of deaths have been attributed to self-driving Teslas. And while many of those were caused by human error, the government maintains Tesla should…
DASM: Saks and Delta
My latest dumb-ass, stupid management candidates: Saks Fifth Avenue, where the store manager and CEO of the parent have refused to even acknowledge a letter pointing out that on a…
Freedom and Liberty
Does the irony strike anyone that the US is celebrating its independence, achieved nearly 240 years ago, with an unbroken string of successive, elected governments running the country—and the Egyptian…
The Difference Between 1 and 7
I was graduated number 9 academically in high school, and number 7 in college. I tell you this not to brag—I don’t want to recreate Facebook here—but to explain a…
The Perspective of Sales and Squirrels
Bentley will see a squirrel, drop whatever he’s doing, and tear after it, irrespective of the distance, number of fences, and amount of trees intervening. When he has to pull…
Before and After the Fall (Prelapsarian Fun)
I used the word “prelapsarian” (before the fall of man; Edenic times) this week in my Monday Morning Memo. Sure enough, some clown who received the FREE newsletter writes me…