What’s Next

For anyone asking what comes after the title, the paycheck, or the plan.

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Newsletter – “The Most Difficult Person I’ve Ever Managed” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Several times a year, my son, Tim, and friend, Brian Bowers, and I speak to business management classes at Ohio State. Among the topics most discussed is managing people. Brian...
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Newsletter – “The Message is the Medium” by Tim McCarthy
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Newsletter – “The Message is the Medium” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant professor who coined the phrase “the medium is the message”.   Stated briefly, he believed that television, movies and advertising vehicles held a message just...
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Newsletter: Our Enemy is Despair

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Despair ruins more lives and organizations than obstacles do.  Obstacles, however difficult, can be overcome as has been shown by many heroes over time.  Despair cannot be overcome as it...
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Newsletter: Next, I Fight a Bull!

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Though never documented, it is legend that Ernest Hemingway said; to be a man, one must plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book and father a son. As...
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Newsletter: Looking Before Leaping

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Great organizations depend on great research and all ideas can and should be tested before  being rolled out into the market. [more] My first learning about research was probably from...
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Newsletter: It’s Harder to be Unhappy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Once we see the truth as it is, we can still view things optimistically and our plans gain more traction by doing so. [more] How do I know? I’ve worked...
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Newsletter: Horrible Holiday?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Peace to you this season. [more] It's December 16, 2008, and today is another bad news day for me. The news I'm getting is probably similar to yours. The report...
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Newsletter – “God’s Not Done With Us Yet” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

As I look back I am grateful for so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about gratitude I still have for people who believed in me. In fact, I have a...
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Newsletter: Enough

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The free enterprise system, like its consumers, seems now too focused on financial products and not focused enough on “making and trading”.  We are in danger of becoming insatiable gamblers. ...
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Newsletter: “Counter Intuitive Truths” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

In pondering what lessons I’ve learned in 2013, it became clear to me –once again– that solutions to complex problems are frequently simple. Although I have discovered this many times...
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Newsletter – An Excerpt of the Book “Empty Abundance – (Sure, You Can Have a Bike)”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The most enduring gift Mom and Dad gave all ten of us was their abiding faith that hard work and education create independence. When I was nine, I asked Dad...
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Newsletter: An Excerpt of the Book “Empty Abundance”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

I know in my soul, as Bogle does, that I have more than enough. And so I spend most of my days working to serve those who serve the poor,...
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Newsletter: A Victimless Life

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

There is a big gap between supporting the displaced and poor and enabling people who view themselves as victims.  Our goal is the former and we avoid where possible the...
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Least Complicated
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Least Complicated

By Indigo Girls

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: At 56, one of the most compelling lessons I've learned is that life is difficult, but need not be complicated unless I make it so. That...
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One Way Donkey Ride
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One Way Donkey Ride

By Mary Black

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: I enjoy life theme songs particularly those expressing love as the answer. This one is Irish singer Mary Black and is a bit haunting, both musically...
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Teach Your Children
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Teach Your Children

By Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: I’ve performed this song 100+ times in front of an audience and I never tire of its message.  That is, that learning parents and learning children...
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Fields of Gold
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Fields of Gold

By Eva Cassidy

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: This Sting song is really brought to life for me in this cover by Eva Cassidy. It's a haunting tale of the passage of life with...
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Closer to Fine
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Closer to Fine

By Indigo Girls

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: A song for searchers such as me and most of our readers, the girls remind us that there's more than one answer to our questions. So...
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We Just Disagree
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We Just Disagree

By Dave Mason

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note:  I’m a big Dave Mason fan and his lyrics aren’t why I love his music.  But the chorus of this song (cited below in excerpt) to me is...
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The Rebel Jesus
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The Rebel Jesus

By The Chieftains, Jackson Browne

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Great song, if a little edgy, for January. From my younger days, Browne reminded me that Jesus was not nearly so widely accepted in his day...
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The Pretender
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The Pretender

By Jackson Browne

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Another 70's song; songs I like because they seem to mark our generation's dawning awareness of the constant struggle between money and love. Browne captures the...
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