If your last image of Iron Mike chewing off the ear of Evander Holyfield was a bit too graphic, then maybe some of the following highly positive quotes might be more representative of the reasons for careful planning...just so that you don't get punched in the face.
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Yesterday’s Thanksgiving holiday has got to be the best holiday of the year. In my own personal book of holidays, it actually ties with the 4th of July. What sets it apart from all the other holidays is…
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These are the 22 most important sales days of the year. These are the days that can make a difference whether it's by making money the old-fashioned way through blocking and tackling your way down the field like the Patriots last night, or by investing time in a couple of those opportunity bluebirds that have been hanging out there for a while. Whatever it is, these are the days that will count the most. And the very good news is that there are still 22 DAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Do you remember the Northeasters from last week?
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Very early this Monday morning, I was driving out of Vermont, headed back to the NH beach.
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As a sales guy, I have no problem with making connections. For my business associates. For my MIT and Tufts students. For our customers of the firm. It's part of the process of living and working in a tight ecosystem like Boston...or in any other city for that matter.
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And so, the rhythm of the fall has begun....
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Been an interesting summer so far what with lots of hospital visits, more docs than I want to know, surgery and now recuperating through Labor Day. As my Facebook friends know, I decided to reward making it through the surgery and receiving very good news from pathology by buying a new Corvette Stingray. Seemed to be fitting in keeping with the whole beach and ocean thing, plus I've always wanted to own a sports car. Not to worry, the garage still houses the Subaru Outback and the Acura MDX since the Stingray will never see one flake of snow or ever travel on an ice covered road.
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Sometimes we make this strategic planning stuff much too difficult, too mysterious and too complex to be useful in the real, rough and tumble world of scaling a profitable growth business.
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Perhaps you're a weekend athlete and chase the little white ball around on Saturdays. Maybe, you're on the other end of the spectrum like my friend, John Sohikian, back on the bike clocking 30 miles runs just two weeks after major surgery. James Geshwiler, one of the two Managing Directors of Common Angels, is out rowing on the Charles most mornings in every possible weather condition, including a little ice now and then. Me? I'm somewhere north of the center, in the gym promptly every weekday morning at 5, thinking through the day and typically counting the minutes until breakfast.
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