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Are There Limits In “It’s Not Personal, It’s Just Business”?

Occasionally, I talk sports here. Sports is big business, and there are some great lessons to be learned, whether from subjects like the NBA lockout and Journalism, The National Football League and Socialism, or the way my beloved New York Mets negotiated with a player who had violated his contract.

One of those “everybody’s heard it” business phrases is one that’s supposed to make those of us negotiating as hard as we can feel better about ourselves. “It’s Not Personal, It’s Just Business” is something I’ve said, something I’ve had said to me, and something I’ve always believed in.

If Google Stops Working, Will Your Business Keep Running?

The shoemaker’s kids don’t have shoes.

I’ve been known to apply that old saw to lots of situations. Friends get angry at me when I do it, clients pay me to teach them about making sure they have shoes of their own, and because I’m human I’m as guilty as anyone; the things I’m best at teaching to others I don’t always handle well for myself.

What do you do when Google shuts you down?

To Sell, Become Harry Potter

Most business people work 24/7. Successful ones learn to shorten their hours to . . . maybe sixty per week, but business is never far away; my Droid alerts me to things I’ve told it are important every thirty minutes or so.

I don’t bring it into the bedroom, or to meals, by the way.

So here I sit, early on a Sunday morning, checking what’s happened in the word while I was asleep. A story in the New York Times about colleges catches my eye, and I think, pass that along.

Business is Like Marriage. Both Change.

No, I’m not about to say I think marriage is an archaic institution, or rant against it in any way. In fact, I believe in marriage, and not just in a  “we need to do this so we can have children and not create social issues” way.

I’m talking about change.

An old business partner of mine recently pointed out that men enter marriages expecting their wives not to change, and women expect that their husbands will. Surprise! You’ll both change, and likely in ways nobody saw coming. The trick to success, therefore, would seem to be navigating the change together.

U.S. Health Care . . . Good Enough for Animals

This post owes its existence entirely to Nicholas Kristof and Michael Moore.

You probably know Mr. Moore’s work. The guy has been churning out one left-wing documentary after another for about twenty years now, and when Sicko came out a couple of years back it managed to get enough attention to finally catapult Moore into the mainstream.

Kristoff, on the other hand, is not someone with whom very many people are that familiar. A columnist for the New York Times, he spends a lot of time in the third world trying to do good. Yes, he too is pretty far left. Sorry about putting you in that box, Nick.

What the Recording Industry Teaches Us About Change

I have a friend who’s spent his entire career in the music business. Up until a few years ago, he headed A&R (the part of the company that finds new talent) for Atlantic Records, who were, and if the recording industry still “exists” in any meaningful format still are a big label.

Well, it doesn’t.

I’ve known this for quite a while. The old school media companies have been fighting it for over a decade. There have been hundreds if not thousands of articles written on the subject, and the short point is that the businesses these folks are in have changed. The Internet has hastened the change and record labels, television networks, and newspapers are in full and fast decline.

Government, Obscenity, and Business

I’ve been around long enough to witness a lot of change. Not quite long enough to have seen the Supreme Court Case in 1959 that made so many thing that were up until then classified as “obscene” all of a sudden, like magic, legal, but close, and certainly long enough to see Hustler Magazine and Larry Flynt forever change the face of the subject in otherwise conservative Cincinnati, Ohio.

Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Business, and Lies

Who thinks they understand Barack Obama’s Health Care Reform initiative?

Guess again.

It doesn’t take much thought to see that President Barack Obama is trying to change the way health care works in the U.S. And with full disclosure that I’m a fan and a supporter, I feel compelled to state that the great man has yet to put forth a “plan”. That’s not the point of this post.





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