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Love By Clockwork

Trust the Swiss do everything with admirable efficiency and military precision. A bit too efficient, if you ask me and, sadly, at the expense of old world charm. My wife and I were in Switzerland last summer and I don’t think we saw a single cuckoo clock. What we did see was people walking purposefully (the Swiss do not stroll – too inefficient) and trains that arrived and left so punctually that tourists set their watches by them. The Swiss, of course, always know precisely what time it is.

Now those Rolex-toting automatons have extended this efficiency to romance, for God’s sake. Upwardly mobile Swiss executives are too busy clawing their way up the corporate ladder to look for love. American yuppies face that situation too, of course, but somehow they muddle their way through to finding a mate – usually by trial and error. The Swiss would be horrified at such a haphazard approach.

An Ozzie Twist

Most Americans, if they think of Australia at all, vaguely recall it as that land ‘down under’ – where everything is upside down. They celebrate Christmas in summer, for Pete’s sake. The Yanks may be on to something.

Here’s another example. In testosterone-driven America and most of Europe, it’s the man who is willing to play any angle to get some sex – either free or paid for. Turns out, some Ozzies like to live up to their reputation and turn things upside down.

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I am on my way toward establishing myself as a successful businessman. What are the things that I should do to maintain success? If you are an independent business owner with more than 5 years experience and a relatively viable organization, please share what you are doing to keep it that way.

Where did you get your start-up capital?

What is the most important step in starting a business?

Those are just a couple of questions I thought of.

Looking forward to your replies.

Shell Turns Other Cheek

If Western companies are going to strike deals with Russia after having already been burned once, then I suppose it's like the old saying. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
 
So, Shell, shame on you.

An Editor’s Life: Content Adaptability

I woke up this morning thinking about The Secret. Anyway—long story, short—I’m going to have a fantastic day.

My first feat of greatness is the coinage of a new buzzword phrase: content adaptability. It describes the new, almost mandatory skill set we all need today, advantageously caught between the industrial revolution and the onset of the information age. It means being able to find and create information for various media with increasing expertise.

Why “increasing” expertise? Because media is always changing. Editors especially need to have a firm grasp on media trends because of the role it plays in the way we do our job. We must be content adaptable because we’re defining the content that goes into these media and shaping the way it looks and reads when it comes out.

Do you already consider yourself content adaptable? If yes, then in what way? If not, what will you do to prepare yourself?

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