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Leadership Selling

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill I recently watched a documentary about Three Mile Island.  I did not fact check it or try to assess bias but if much of what went wrong were correctly portrayed, leadership was missing in action.  The father of the US Nuclear Navy, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

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Reputation, Reputation, Reputation

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett It is fascinating how many accident videos get posted to social media.  Guess we all go to NASCAR races to see car wrecks.  In some cases, videos are personal

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Value from Elon Musk’s ‘Idiot Index’?

“If the ratio is high, you’re an idiot.” – Elon Musk “Musk developed the ‘idiot index,’ which calculated how much more costly a finished product was than the cost of its basic materials.  If a product had a high idiot index, its cost could be reduced significantly by devising more efficient manufacturing techniques.” Effectively, what

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