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A Perfect Day
Sometimes I have a day when everything comes together and I have to say, “Thank you, God, for allowing me to experience it.” I had one on May 7th. Noah [...]
How little Spira Shoe Company stole the show from Nike
What do you do if you are an unknown pipsqueak company with a killer idea, going up against a giant with an almost unlimited marketing budget? On April 16th at [...]
Daimler-Chrysler Wants a Divorce. Shocking.
We now have the news that Daimler-Chrysler wants a divorce. Shocking. One more stupid merger falls apart because the people couldn’t get along. The Germans thought Detroit built crappy cars, [...]
Lovie and Tony's Coaching Styles
Tony Dungy, the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and Lovie Smith, coach of the Chicago Bears, are close personal friends who talk to each other at 5:00 a.m. every Monday [...]
Wiki-Screw Machines
Like most people, I have a love-hate relationship with the Internet. I love Fantasy Baseball. I hate email. I love reading Mark Cuban’s blog. I hate the assault of pornography [...]
Commodity Prices Unraveling
Copper prices are down almost 30 percent from the speculative hedge fund bubble. Brass rod is just beginning to follow with scrap prices down about 10 percent from the peak. [...]
Meeting People the Old Fashion Way (Liberated from email!)
One of the great things about doing this magazine is finding out that people actually read it, and some even like it. I received a call from Paul Ikasalo, the [...]
Can We Stop a Culture of Failure?
In the last few days, in New York and Chicago there have been killings of young African-American men by the police, inciting the black communities in those cities. Neither victim [...]
Borat
I was in Charlotte, North Carolina the first weekend that Borat came out. My 26 year old son Noah and 20 year old nephew David invited me to see the [...]
The DNA of Winning, Bill Parcells VS "Red" Auerbach
Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, is my favorite writer on the planet. His piece on Bill Parcells of the Dallas Cowboys in the November issue of Play, the new sports [...]