The Curse of the Hopeless Romantic
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 by Mark | Posted in Business, Entrepreneur, Management, Small Business, Unconventional Thinking | Comments
Is actually a blessing. Why? For a zillion reasons but let’s look at one of those reasons with a billion implications. All positive. All life affirming. All for the greater good of the romantics and the world they inhabit.
More CEOs have graduated from Princeton than any other school. And guess what, this grand dame of the Ivy League doesn’t have a business school nor will it permit undergrads to major in business. That may be because it offers virtually no business courses.
So how does it cultivate CEOs? Because it germinates romantics. By this, I mean young men and women who read poetry, contemplate art, study architecture, drink too much, read Catcher In The Rye 100 times. They are the dreamers. They are the ones who come up with every earth-changing idea in the world. Hold on. Zig zag. I just happened to see an interview with opera legend Luciano Pavarotti who died recently. I am not an opera fan and knew little about him. And then I see and hear him talk about life, love and success and I, who think of myself as a romantic, see the real thing and I feel like an aluminum siding salesman next to this Italian giant. He ruled opera, yes, but he could have taken Dell to the next level when the founder stepped back. One reason the PC maker has been slumping is that its PC
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October 4th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I love you. Everything you write is so on point. I’m emailing ‘The Curse of the Hopeless Romantic’ to all my friends who get it. Thanks for making my day.
December 31st, 2012 at 7:55 am
Being an ex-burgh resident (I’m a tatiror and moved to the other side of the state, aka Philly) I have found that Comcast is no better on this side, either.In the burgh, I originally had DSL, but the landline became such a nuisance, my housemate and I caved and got cable. My favorite part of this is that cable internet is $15 cheaper if you have basic cable .which conveniently costs about $15 a month. So do I waste the money? Or get the cable I wasn’t really interested in.So I move to Philly Fios internet isnt available in my area yet. And cable seemed like the most affordable. So I waited in my new Philly digs for the rep who never showed up. Appt #2 was set up. The rep showed up late I had to get back to work. Having nothing worth value in my apartment, really, I left him there and went back to work. I came home 3 hours later and found him asleep on my couch. No work had been done. I moved to a new apartment a few months later .and the guy who showed up insisted that I serve him a glass of water because he was uncomfortably warm (it was August and 98 degrees outside). I gave him a bottle of water he drank it and then told me that it was too hot to do any work and he’d come back tomorrow. WHAT?!Terrible, terrible./long ramble