Although I do not agree with nearly most of the current U.S. President’s thinking, I do hold Warren Buffet in high esteem and am always willing to listen to opinions from smart and successful people.
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25 ways to turbocharge your brain power
25 ways to turbocharge your brain power Improve your vocabulary. Take a different route home from work, regularly. Do crosswords, solve puzzles and brainteasers. Become comfortable with ambiguity. Reverse your assumptions. Look further than the first, correct answer. Be curious. Have your own mental sanctuary. Debate (not argue) and defend your position on matters, intellectually. [...]
Mix and match ideas to serve your clients
Creativity choked? Mix and match ideas to serve your clients. “The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages & kings.” In the 4th Millennium BC, hard bronze was invented in Susa (Iran) by mixing soft copper with small amounts of an [...]
Don’t believe everything you hear
Self-proclaimed business experts and gurus love to hear the sound of their own voice, almost as much as they love you listening to their voice. The problem is, many self-proclaimed business experts get it wrong. You need to discriminate about who’s opinion you accept. After all, it’s your business at risk. Challenge conventional and limited [...]
Ric Willmot’s BMW-CEO Networking Day
Being a client of Ric Willmot has its advantages. A group of Ric’s clients and Coaching & Mentoring Program Members were invited to a full day driving all the cars in the BMW range, interrupted by a sumptuous lunch in the Gold Coast Hinterland. All the business owners and CEOs had the opportunity to network [...]
Ric’s Rant: Christmas snow by any other name
Our four-year-old daughter was thrilled about driving to the Christmas Lights Winners around Brisbane. The overall winner was a house in Birkdale that is spectacular and pure LCD-artistry. A sensational $3,000 Cherry Blossom tree; depictions of the Brisbane City Hall, the Brisbane Story Bridge (complete with a CityCat Ferry underneath), Mount Cootha, an Aboriginal corroboree, [...]
Dead dictators selling chicken
Fast food chain Nando’s is beating its own drum sticks with a controversial ad, showing Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe frolicking with dead dictators. I’m sharing this just for the fun of it. It’s quite clever and very well done.
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