Small Thing? Big Thing!

“Sometimes a small thing can become a big thing…”

– J. R. St.John

Deep in the throes of a series of finals presentations, we — on the receiving side — had a complex matrix of decision items to consider and we were tuned up pretty seriously, looking for the smallest detail upon which to award an incremental advantage — or to take one away.

The pitching teams were in their

Broken Compass

“Look Within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will bubble up if thou wilt ever dig!”

– Marcus Aurelius

 The Indications

GM, McKinsey, Volkswagen. All part of the international economic firmament; and each one undergoing painful ethics audits and self-evaluation.

GM for installing faulty ignition

Dusty Trauma Elementary School

“Many of our adult fears were forged in the arena of elementary school.”

– J.R. St.John

 Most of our unhappy considerations about the arts of presentation and argumentation emerge from the distant, dusty traumas of Elementary School. Amazingly, we all seem to have experienced the same litany of indignities; the

Signature – In Memoriam: Yogi Berra

“To be nobody but myself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”

“It’s easier if everything lines up, but it don’t hafta!”

– Lawrence Peter Berra
1925 — 2015

 “If

Archie, Harold & Sam

Archie Bunker was the lead character from the 70’s sitcom, All in the Family. In lengthy discussions with his wife, Edith; he frequently resorted to the epithet, “Get to the Point, Edith!” Wouldn’t it be heaven to have a red flashing light “Get to the Point!” with a switch by every seat in the conference room? No better way to tell the blowhards, the detail fanatics and the self-appointed experts that we’re tired of