US Leadership – Four Key Areas A recent interview on NBC’s Today show with Jamie Dimon was impressive. Mr. Dimon is recovering from emergency heart surgery in early March of this year. He is the CEO of JP Morgan Chase banking system, and certainly has the background in financial leadership. Jamie Dimon CEO JP Morgan…
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Simple Daily Challenges
This blog will be a quickie as well as an admission of ineptitude, perhaps. In the grocery store the other day, I picked up a new bottle of hand soap. Nothing unusual about that; it’s the liquid version with a small squirt pump thingie on the top. I got the store brand as it was…
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A Very Special Little Car
Around 1995, a good family friend told me that she had met an unusual person. He was a frequent customer, along with his wife, at the trendy restaurant she and her husband owned. This fellow was well known since he had been the attorney for the famous/notorious financier Marc Rich, the same Mr. Rich who…
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Comments on Some Special Music
There are times when something just flat-out resonates -- not "just" resonates, but hits you smack dab between the eyes. On three occasions during the past month or so, I’ve been gobsmacked with music. Two of these “gobsmackings” came from random selections from Austin FM stations; the other from a Bob Dylan CD. But more…
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