
This blog is a response to my invitation to GL Hoffman's thoughts on business intelligence.
I laughed when I read GL's opener ... "This Was Intimidating..." But the wit and wisdom I'd looked forward to most ... flowed freely from GL's blog below!
Ellen asking me to write a guest post for her blog, Brain Based Business!!
!, is a bit like Derek Jeter asking me to come over to Yankee Stadium to catch some grounders with him. Sounds fun at first, but there is a very real chance I will embarrass myself, my family, my company and all my dead relatives. Plus the uniform will make me look like I am wearing tightie-whities from head to toe. This could get ugly fast.
I learned long ago that I blog best when I don’t think so much. This is probably very apparent to the readers of my own blog. Carrying the baseball analogy further, wasn’t it Yogi Berra who said, “Think? How the hell are you gonna hit and think at the same time?”
So here goes.
I like being around smart people. I guess they have either bigger brains, or somehow have made better uses of it. From what I read, it is likely not so much an
accident of birth, but upbringing, practice, experience, education and willingness to adapt that makes one person seem smarter.
In my little hometown of
Funny how smart people have since stuck in my mind.
In 1975, I worked part time in
Later, I had a board member of one of my companies who was the same way, Erwin Kelen is a local, well known board member of young companies. From
There have been other smart people in my life, sure. But these three stick out because, contrary to the old saying that NO ONE IS 15% SMARTER OR DUMBER THAN ANYONE ELSE, these three were waaaaay smarter, way-way-way.
Does this mean that only articulate people are smart? No, I know better. Or that people who can summarize complex issues and make others understand it better are smarter than those who can’t? Nah.
What I am saying is that each of us, I am betting, have been exposed to someone like my three.
If you think about it, your life is richer because of it.










