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Zero-Sum Relationships
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Zero-Sum Relationships

By Tim McCarthy

October 5, 2026

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...
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Truly Funny | Nobody Tosses a Manhole Cover
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Truly Funny | Nobody Tosses a Manhole Cover

By Tim McCarthy

October 5, 2026

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...
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Shame Is Always on Offer
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Shame Is Always on Offer

By Seth Godin

October 5, 2026

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I've Seen It
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I've Seen It

By Olivia Dean

October 5, 2026

by Olivia Dean Editor’s Note:  Thanks to my son, Kevin, for putting me onto this song.  It’s simple, it’s lovely and it’s meaningful.   Favorite Lyric:   The more you look, the...
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The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
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The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

By Christopher Beha

October 5, 2026

By Christopher Beha Editor’s Note:   I’ll just put it out there – this past month was brain candy month.  I purposely read nothing that might improve my mind.  But...
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Do You Ask Answers Disguised as Questions?
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Do You Ask Answers Disguised as Questions?

By Tim McCarthy

August 31, 2026

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...
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Truly Funny | Tall Guys Have Heard It All
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Truly Funny | Tall Guys Have Heard It All

By Tim McCarthy

August 31, 2026

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...
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Against the Gods
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Against the Gods

By Peter Bernstein

August 31, 2026

By Peter Bernstein Editor’s note:  The subtitle describes this book well:  “The Remarkable Story of Risk.”  Referenced by Tom Keene on Bloomberg, it piqued my interest because of my fascination...
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Built For Open Water
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Built For Open Water

By William G.T. Shedd

August 31, 2026

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Today
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Today

By The New Christy Minstrels

August 31, 2026

by The New Christy Minstrels Editor’s note:   My sister, Mary, continues her brave battle against breast cancer (currently winning), and so many memories of my big sister come to...
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Seeing Life Through the Lens of Supply and Demand
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Seeing Life Through the Lens of Supply and Demand

By Tim McCarthy

August 4, 2026

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...
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Truly Funny | Lost in Translation: Toddler Edition
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Truly Funny | Lost in Translation: Toddler Edition

By Tim McCarthy

August 4, 2026

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,...
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See the Changes
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See the Changes

By Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

August 3, 2026

by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Editor’s note: I learned this song recently to celebrate our son, Kevin’s, life changes. Favorite lyric: “She has seen me changing. It ain’t easy...
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Self-Renewal
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Self-Renewal

By John W. Gardner

August 3, 2026

Editor’s Note: This book, written in the mid-1960s, profoundly provides a construct for what is going on sixty years later.  Gardner’s theme revolves around the need for self-renewal individually and...
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A Little Grace Goes a Long Way
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A Little Grace Goes a Long Way

By Charles Glassman, "The Brain Drain"

August 3, 2026

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You Were On My Mind
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You Were On My Mind

By We Five

June 26, 2026

by We Five Editor’s Note: My sister, Mary, is my guiding light for resilience. In my mid-teens, she lived and worked in Washington, DC, and my parents let me visit...
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Truly Funny | Houston, We Have a Sandwich
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Truly Funny | Houston, We Have a Sandwich

By Tim McCarthy

June 26, 2026

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...
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Life is Good
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Life is Good

By Livingston Taylor

June 1, 2026

by Livingston Taylor Editor’s Note: I had coffee this week with a fellow searcher, Marianne Gaydos, and she reminded me of this upbeat, and very true song. It came up...
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Are You an Investor or a Sucker?
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Are You an Investor or a Sucker?

By Tim McCarthy

June 1, 2026

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...
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Truly Funny | Kid Tough
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Truly Funny | Kid Tough

By Tim McCarthy

June 1, 2026

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...
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Truly Funny | Cat Tales
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Truly Funny | Cat Tales

By Tim McCarthy

May 4, 2026

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...
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