Socrates Says

The New Reality is spawning all manner of changes in our world. Over the past thirty some years with the advent of the personal computer, for “data processing” and the internet, for “networking” and the smart phone, for “your wallet” the personal liberation revolution is in full bloom. Since the Industrial Revolution the only manner […]

Those who do not move do not notice their chains. Rosa Luxemburg, Russian-German political theorist, economist and revolutionary   Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Gary Comer (1929–2006) American entrepreneur founder of Lands’ End   Most people … discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets […]

For interested people there is a wonderful little book written by Roger W. Babson in 1920 which should be required reading for everyone in High School and every politician in the land. It is called “Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are And Whence They Come” In 47 pages you will understand everything you need to […]

Service-Dominant Marketing has a series of interesting position papers in it each of which poses thought provoking concepts both past and present. Let’s look at market coverage. We started in the equipment world with salesmen; there were rarely any women, each of whom was given a geographic territory – “These are your counties.” The salesmen […]

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Michelangelo   Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses George W. Carve   Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another […]

In the last Musing we touched on Leadership. This subject is worth pursuing a bit further. Leaders rarely are born. People become a leader – they are given the role of a leader by their team members.  This is not something that is commonly believed. Many feel there is a “royal jelly” that is on […]