October 2018
24 articles published this month.
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Notes From My Journal
Show Me Your Freak Card
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Delray Beach.- I liked him the minute he introduced himself. Poised, intelligent, and energetic, he wanted to interview me for his podcast. We did a short, extemporaneous bit on…
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The Perfect Partnership Formula
Saturday, October 27, 2018 Delray Beach, FL– Talk about teamwork… In 1995, a young man named Howard Marks got together with another young man, Bruce Karsh, and the two of them built a $100 billion asset…
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A Fun and Clever Way to Build an Art Collection
Thursday, October 25, 2018 Delray Beach, FL– If you ever want to develop a really great art collection – on the cheap – here’s a clever strategy you can use. I picked it up from an elder statesman in our…
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
What Happens When We Die?
Everything in the universe exists in a continuous state of fluctuation, from extremely contracted to extremely expansive. Planets. Rocks. Galaxies. Humans too – our bodies and our minds. I once heard a…
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An Unexpected Gift From My Father
Monday, October 22, 2018 Delray Beach, FL– My friend Steve Leveen and I once had an enjoyable exchange on the question of whether you should write in the books you read. There were good arguments on both sides…
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Am I a Hypocrite?, How About You?
During the Kavanaugh spectacle, the line of thinking I was espousing elicited two very different comments. My left-leaning interlocutors called me a privileged and misogynistic white male, while my…
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What Am I Doing Here? What Can I Say?
Saturday, October 20, 2018 Bermuda -I’m in Bermuda this weekend, speaking at an investment conference. I’m here to talk about money — making it, growing it, protecting it. I came in Thursday night at about…
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Principles of Wealth: #21
When the odds of a particular speculation are extremely long, we refer to it as gambling. And gambling, most sensible people would acknowledge, is a foolish financial activity. Unless, of course, the odds are…
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More On Caring Less: Losing the “Love” of Golf
Thursday, October 18, 2018 Delray Beach, FL– Golf is a miserable way to pass time. Of all the sports and games and hobbies I’ve tried in my life, none provided the level of frustration and self-loathing that…
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Success in Life? It’s All About Micro-Culture
There’s a longstanding nature-versus-nurture debate among social psychologists. Wrestling with it doesn’t get you very far, because it’s not a real question. Nature matters. Nurture matters. But what matters…
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Living Through the Premiere of Off the Rails
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Delray Beach, FL -On Sunday, I gave you a sneak peek at Off the Rails, an autobiographical “coming of age” movie I made a few years ago that only got finished this year. I was in…
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Note — October 16, 2018
[Note: I just got back home yesterday, and I’m still playing catch-up. Back to the regular blog format on Thursday… ]
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Fake News and Manipulative Advertising
Sunday, October 14, 2018 Liverpool, England – On the way from the Hotel de Rome to the Berlin Airport, the driver, Franz, asked me about the hurricanes in Florida. He wanted to move there, he said, but his…
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Note — October 14, 2018
[Note: No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. I won’t have time to do much writing.]
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Survival of the Least Fit
Friday, October 12, 2018 Berlin, Germany– She had the perfect job, the culmination of her excellent and expensive education: senior executive of diversity something at a high-tech company. It was her big day…
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Note
[Note: No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. I won’t have time to do much writing.]
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Notes From My Journal
How to Accept the Death of Your Good Ideas
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Berlin, Germany– The first time I put on one of these forums in 2014, it was a great success. It was an open conversation between one of our most successful US-based marketers with…
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Out of Town
[Note: No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. I won’t have time to do much writing.]
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In Berlin for an Hour and I’m Already in Trouble
Monday, October 8, 2018 Berlin, Germany– The Hotel de Rome, the taxi driver told me, is one of the most “prestigious” in Berlin. It is impressive. It’s housed in what looks like a 17thcentury palazzo, but it’s…
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Author Takes Break From Writing For Business Travel
[No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. No time to do much writing.]
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Breaking Big: The “Ready-Fire-Aim” Strategy That Took One Company From $8 Million to More Than $1 Billion
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Delray Beach, FL Introduction In 2010, John Wiley published a book I had written several years earlier called Ready, Fire, Aim. Of the 20+ books I’ve written on business and wealth…
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The Danger of Freedom: People Do What They Want to Do, Not What You Think They Should Want to Do
October 2, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - A Boston-based “people analytics firm” named Humanyze has instituted a mandatory parental leave policy for male employees. The motive is to “equalize” the work/parent…
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Creating a Culture of Profit
Monday, October 1, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - You own four businesses in the same industry. They have the same sort of products. The same access to marketing intelligence. And they have unlimited access to cash…
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An Interesting Angle on Teamwork
Monday, October 1, 2018 Delray Beach, FL– You don’t have to be friends with your teammates. You just need something that Michael Bar-Eli calls task cohesion. According to Bar-Eli, when a team has a high level…
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