UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Car Crashes Of The Human Kind

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by Mark

It’s not the velocity that amazes, generally, but the frequency that is astounding, how we drive headlong into each other and spin out of control into a speeding stranger…

Fear Is The Father Of Failure

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by Mark

All of us have dreams. Things we want to accomplish. Goals we would love to achieve. Successes we want to reach out and claim.

Watching JFK, From A School Bus

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 by Mark

It was the late fall of 1960 and John Fitzgerald Kennedy was about to be anointed by the American people as President of the United States.
I was a kid on a school bus, too young and preoccupied with an out of control family, academia and a budding fascination with girls to care a whit about [...]

The Case For Accidental Companies…..And The People Who Run Them

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by Mark

When I was a young man, I met ice cream impresario Tom Carvel: widely credited as the entrepreneur who created big league franchising.
What struck me most about our conversation was that Tom’s first store was an accident: when his truck broke down on a road in Westchester, NY, and he lacked the funds to repair [...]

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