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A few weeks ago, which now seems like a faint memory from a former life, when the quaint practice of conducting classes in classrooms was still in vogue, a I was talking to my students about some of my favorite

The great Louis Armstrong was once asked, “How do you define jazz?”  He replied, “Baby, if you got to ask, you’ll never know.”  The same response might be appropriate for a marketing student or young MBA trying to wrap her

by Jeff Hirsch One day before my regular Saturday morning yoga class not long ago, a fellow yogi told me the story of an interesting text message exchange with her father. Inspired by her yoga practice and not even thinking

It still may not be the best of pizza, but it was once among the worst of pizza. In 2009, besieged falling sales and diminished margins resulting from recession, price wars and brutal competition from rivals Pizza Hut and Papa

My last post was about three months ago and I’ve been meaning to write. Really. It’s just that I’ve been feeling a little “stuck” lately. Writer’s block, a euphemism for fear and laziness, has certainly played a part. But I’ve

Actors were once known to say their “best work wound up on the cutting room floor.” The reference to a pre-digital era when people actually cut film and spliced it back together is quaint, but the essence of the statement