Archive for April, 2006
What’s It All About?
Tomorrow ends a month-long visit from one of my great friends. He has just sold a business he worked so hard to keep going amidst the most difficult circumstances. In the end, it was time to give up. So, he came for a month to lick his wounds, look back, draw some lessons and begin looking forward with new eyes.
Ours is the kind of friendship that defies time, desperately horrible jokes, long stretches without any contact and the occasional argument - though those are so few now even they are jokes to us.
So, it occurs to me that my life is about cultivating relationships. The kind of relationships that have each of us in service to the other, within reason, of course. We all know the sort of co-worker who…
On Winners and Losers
Tonight is the final men’s college basketball game of the year. Tonight one team will be crowned national champions. That means one team will win the game; the other will lose. One team will be called the winners; the other team will be called the losers.
Winners and losers - now that seems a silly way to look at it. But, hey ho, we like those terms. If I win, can you win? If you lose, can I lose? In business we like to think in terms of win/win relationships. But, in sports, we don’t think in those terms. Seems we can’t bend our heads around to having two winners. Even when there is a draw, or a tie, we still don’t call each team winners. We say they tied.…
