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Gerald W. Camiener
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Gerald W. Camiener

By Gerald W. Camiener

April 27, 2020

Good business people take risks; poor business people gamble. -Gerald W. Camiener
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Calm Also Has a Coefficient
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Calm Also Has a Coefficient

By Tim McCarthy

March 30, 2020

By Seth Godin Original Article: Editor’s Note:  My favorite blog ever from my favorite blogger, Seth Godin.  I highly recommend his daily readings at www.sethgodin.com , which are free.  He...
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Learning By Paradox
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Learning By Paradox

By Tim McCarthy

March 30, 2020

My worldview has been shaped by paradox.  Here are a few of my favorites.        You can’t sell when you’re talking   And yet most salespeople “show up and throw up”.  One of...
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Ben Franklin
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Ben Franklin

By Ben Franklin

February 27, 2020

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." - Ben Franklin
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Diworsification
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Diworsification

By Tim McCarthy

February 27, 2020

I first noticed this term in Peter Lynch’s book “One Up on Wall Street” (1989). He used it to describe companies investing in areas widely different from their main businesses....
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The Value of Being Wrong
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The Value of Being Wrong

By Tim McCarthy

January 29, 2020

Were you brought up in a similar manner to me? Most academics were based on right or wrong You won or lost sporting events and academic contests My teachers, coaches and parents focused on relating (their...
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The Billion Dollar Whale
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The Billion Dollar Whale

By Bradley Hope and Tom Wright

December 30, 2019

Editor’s comment:  Another “non-fiction that reads more like fiction”.  Jho Low, between graduating from Wharton in 2005 and exposes that began in 2015 appears to have pulled off Madoff-style fraud. ...
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Fundamentals
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Fundamentals

By Jim Sullivan

November 27, 2019

Editor’s note:  If you consider yourself a coach, work in any form of customer service and/or HR/Training, this book will cause you to think differently about some of your more...
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The End of the American International Order: What Comes Next?
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The End of the American International Order: What Comes Next?

By Tim McCarthy

November 27, 2019

Editor’s note:   This is a long and complicated read.  So much so that I cannot claim to understand it entirely, least do I understand the author’s certainty of Japan’s...
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Time Management: Master Your Time, Master Your Life

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

There’s this huge lie we tell ourselves that “we don’t have enough time”. There is some truth to do that because eventually one day we won’t have any more time,...
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Yogi Berra
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Yogi Berra

By Yogi Berra

October 18, 2019

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." - Yogi Berra
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The Temptation to Lie | Norman Brodsky

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Editor’s Note :  I love this simple old fashioned business lesson, reported here by Brodsky in a current situation.  Most of my mentoring time is with small business where the...
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Noah Harari
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Noah Harari

By Homo Deus

October 18, 2019

Editor’s note :  This mind blowing work, subtitled “A Brief History of Tomorrow”, gets a bit lost for me because of its ambition to forecast a few hundred years forward. ...
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Steve Kerr
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Steve Kerr

By Steve Kerr, head coach of the Golden State Warriors

October 18, 2019

“The people to me who are the most powerful leaders are the ones who have great talent in whatever their field is, great conviction in their ability to teach it...
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Mastering Time

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

I asked the business owner who was lamenting the challenges of being an entrepreneur, "Who decides what you do in a day?".  He answered, "me, of course".  My point of...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

By Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American Writer

October 18, 2019

"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." -Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American Writer
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The Virtuous Cycle of Learning

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Just as intellect or athleticism are gifts, so too is natural curiosity.  And as with all gifts, they are advanced if/when we apply self-discipline.  Or they can be left undeveloped...
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To Resist or Embrace

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

I’m mentoring a young man whose great strength and weakness is his energy.  His mind runs at 100 MPH and it only turns off when he sleeps, if he does...
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How Socially Responsible Investing Lost Its Soul | Rachel Evans

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Editor’s comment:  As with every fad and trend I’ve witnessed, there are a lot of fakers in the early years of growth. ESG Investing (Environmental, Social and Governance) is another...
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Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform | Shane Parrish

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Editor's Comment: I ran into the Farnam Street blog and Parrish quite by accident. What I found is a fascinating learning community "dedicated to improving self-education in a learning community...
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The World in 2018 | The Economist

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Editor’s note:  For this one time, I’ve chosen a magazine of the month.  I finally broke down and bought a subscription to The Economist in 2017 having only enjoyed airport...
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