Monthly Archives: March 2012

“Free” shouldn’t be

Sitting around the massive ash conference table were over thirty people who represented, and I am not exaggerating, a millennium of experience and knowledge.  At least a thousand years of practical, priceless information.  Free for the asking.  The instant question … Continue reading

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High fidelity board decisions

A thousand families.  When I think of Chieftan Corporation, and the role I played as Chairman of that company, that’s what I think of.  If you apply the typical family size of about four people, that’s four thousand individuals.  And … Continue reading

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Providence

Inertia is a powerful thing, as any physicist will tell you:  “A body at rest tends to stay at rest; a body in motion tends to continue its motion along its trajectory.”  In other words, the power of the status … Continue reading

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