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Answering questions posed by the press today, Johan Bruyneel, the team manager of the Astana cycling team of which Lance Armstrong is a member, commented on the impact of Armstrong’s fractured clavicle that happened as a result of a cycling crash this week. “Whether Armstrong can recover in time to start July’s Tour is [...] Rain: What a Paperboy Learned About Business by Jeffrey Fox – I had high hopes for this book, a parable about what a young paperboy learns about business and life through his paper delivery travails. It doesn’t work IMO, at least not for a reasonably knowledgeable adult who say, can balance his own checkbook. [...] I’ve been getting involved with more raw startups lately and I’m being reminded daily about the difficulty many teams have in establishing any form of decision-making hierarchy. “We’re equal partners in this enterprise.” “We started it together, we’re going to run it together.” “We both [all] provide equal value so should have equal input.” [...] This month’s Tennis magazine has an article discussing the fact that tennis players feel their sport should “share” more of its profits (the article uses revenues and profits haphazardly) with its players. Apparently, tennis players feel like the low man on the totem pole, only taking home 26% of the revenue (not profits, which [...] I think I could write an essay on the breakdown of civility in modern society based on these questions, but in this case, I ask them to question the business advantages of simply being nice. It’s interesting that being nice to one’s customers is actually a differentiator these days. Of course, it shouldn’t be, [...] In this week’s Sports Illustrated, there is an article about Bobby Orr. For those who don’t know who Orr is, he is currently one of the top hockey player agents in North America. More importantly, for those who don’t know who Orr was, he was, arguably, the greatest hockey player ever. He was certainly [...] I usually alternate between reading fiction and non-fiction, but in the last couple of months, I’ve been mostly on the fiction side of the literary table. My last three reads included two fictional and one non-fictional books, I’d recommend them all. Daemon by Daniel Suarez – Terrific cyber crime drama with enough internet-related acronyms [...] |
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