UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

In business, we are always peering through a mirror of optimism. The next big thing. The game changer deal. The trophy client.

In conversations over lunch, in media interviews, in discussions with so many with whom I come in contact over the course of a business day, I find myself–for the first time in my life– having to defend America.

On our voyage back in time, we are free to rectify mistakes, wipe the slate clean, change decisions, mend broken hearts, place bets we failed to make, walk on water, recognize the genius we wrote off as weird, untie the knots that bound us up in our own deceit.

It is widely believed that “yes” and “no” are simply two sides of the same coin.

But the truth is, they are worlds apart. The reason lies in the fact that they are more than words: they are in the case of “yes,” a pathway to action. And in the case of “no,” a brick wall to prevent it.

Indelible is a word we don’t use much anymore. But we should. In business and in life in general, it has a power and a permanence that presides over the buzz words and concepts of the moment that roll in and out like the waves at Coney Island. (Which, if you have ever been there, you know is indelible.)