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Truly Funny :  At a recent dinner, my 9-year-old grandson asked me if I had “ripped cheeks”.  His dad, my son, and I roared with laughter while Alice and his...

Someone wins; someone loses. One party's gain is exactly taken from the other person's loss. Doesn't sound very appealing, does it? And yet that teaching is consistent with how most...

Truly Funny :  Once, when I shared a compliment from our boss with a colleague, he said, “Hang onto that one, Tim, since Joe is the kind of guy who’s...

Brad Roller, our Vistage (peer group) Chairman, kept a stuffed toy potato within reach during our meetings.  Here’s why. Part of the Vistage discipline was how we processed issues.   A...

Truly Funny :  Our family has many large humans, mostly men, whose size has drawn some funny lines over the years.  One favorite was the clothing salesman who greeted my...

In business, all I own is a hammer, so everything looks like a nail. That hammer is supply and demand. I measure it for every product or service I invest...

Truly Funny :  Reminder to all parents to write down words your toddler gets a little wrong! On our annual family vacation this past week, our 18 month old, Isla,...

“As you discover something you are encoded for and you love doing it, then you can’t help but want to do it more, which means you can’t help but get...

Truly Funny :  Of the many short videos I have of our grandchildren, one is of our Stella, dressed in a space suit, helmet on, when she was three or...

PT Barnum famously said, “there is a sucker born every minute”.  If he were still around, he would love the new investment “products” that have become multi-billion-dollar business categories since...

Truly Funny :  We no longer wonder who our daughter’s 15-month-old girl, Isla Maeve, will be like when she grows up.  Recently she was sitting on the grass at the...

My Uncle John was a prominent physician in Lakewood, Ohio, practicing from the 1930s through the 1970s. His wife Ruth was a sociable woman who loved entertaining. One afternoon, she...