Socrates Says

In this last weekend prior to the US election I am reading a rather outstanding book titled “The New Industrial Revolution” authored by Peter Marsh. I would like to extract a few passages from this book while encouraging you to get it and read it. “In 1750, the leader in global manufacturing was China, responsible […]

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use to being anything else. Winston Churchill What it lies in our power to do, it lies in […]

Branding is a critical element of Marketing. It is who you are and what the market believes you to be. A brand is an elusive element of marketing. How do you create a brand? It is the same as your culture. It is not what you want it to be it is what it is […]

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. Anonymous Little things please little minds. English Proverb Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records. Unknown The time is now.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Peale Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. Phil Jackson I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. Lou Holtz The time is now.

In 1987 Allan Bloom the landmark “The Closing of the American Mind,” then last year Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa published their landmark study of collegiate learning, “Academically Adrift.”  So starts an article in the National Review on October 15th, 2012. I won’t dwell on the article other than to extract a key metric. (Those […]