Monthly Archives: November 2009

A brief review of “Chasing the Rabbit”

Title: Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win Author: Steven J. Spear I found this to be an insightful book, a good overview of how the principles that made Toyota and its pr…

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Office space…

Because inquiring minds (well, at least one or two of them) want to know…. Here is a snapshot of my home office setup. Some know that when I am not traveling, I have the opportunity to work from my basement at home. In the year and a half of tha…

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Some thoughts on Climategate

It is likely that some readers of this blog are totally unaware of the controversy now boiling (how appropriately) in the “global warming” community and dubbed, naturally, Climategate. For those who are, a Google search on the word Climategate cur…

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The Cost of Dying

For those who missed it, here is a link to the segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes program on end of life care in hospitals, named The Cost of Dying. It aired this past Sunday. This is a powerful and thought-provoking look at a milieu I know all too well …

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Happy Thanksgiving to each of you!

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you! l Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-co…

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Zora’s coming out party

We’re proud to share this picture of our youngest Giant, Kenro’s Timeless Beauty (Zora). This was at the Delaware Ohio Kennel Club show in October, with Zora at ten months old. She’s shown by Hannah Williams, daughter of a friend, who is just gett…

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Red Flags

First off, at long last I am back to the blog. It has been a busy eight-week haul of working weekends as well as during the week, but thankfully I have a few weekends off before winter quarter kicks off in January. But I could not wait for the wee…

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