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Last week a friend was venting his frustration about his neighborhood coffee shop.  Early every Saturday morning he goes for a run, planning to stop to read the newspaper and have a leisurely cup of coffee when the shop opens.   

Good, better, best Never let it rest “Til the good is better And better is the best   

Paper, paper, paper!  It spreads out on my desk, buries more important paper and breeds secretly at night to create still more paper.   

I remember it like it was yesterday.  I walked into Bob’s office and he was chugging Maalox like it was a bottle of cold beer on a hot day.   

Lean back in your chair and look around.  What do you see? •If you’re reading this on a computer that’s two years old or newer, you might be a change wolf. •If you’re reading this on a computer that still uses a Windows 95 operating system you’re a change wimp.   

I heard the sad tale at one of my roundtable meetings – a business owner hoping to phase out of the day-to-day management of his company, promoted a valued employee to be president.   

Early in my career I was a personnel assistant at FMC Corporation, Northern Ordnance Division in Fridley, MN.  The company had a policy that an employee would only be reimbursed for education and training if it directly related to the job they performed.   

  Have you ever played the game “Would you Rather?”   

  When I was growing up, we heated our farm house with wood.  Every year Dad would go out into the woods and cut down trees, split and stack many cords of woods.