Advice
Sometime around 1988 or so my boss at the time, and then president of the company, Ray Martino, decided that he needed to bring in a seasoned sales and marketing leader to help take Symbol to the next level. We were just about to pass the $100 million revenue threshold, one of those milestones whose […]
Prelude to a Story
In late May of 1978, the day following my graduation from The State University of NY at Stony Brook, I joined a start-up company called Symbol Technologies, as its fifth employee. I learned only later that, as of that first day on the job, Symbol had negative revenues for the year — the result of […]
Reflections: 35,000 Feet
Open Question How might it be possible to inform the great unwashed (first class) multitudes that it is impolite to recline their seats in a spastic lurch rearward, on a flight where the pitch (regrettably) results in their seat backs approaching the proximity of my nose with stunning suddenness, threatening to crunch my laptop (were […]
Respect Inversions
Vacations, perhaps especially on tropical islands, create inversions of our normal routines. Instead of a steady block of workdays being punctuated by weekend breaks, we loll in continuos leisure, perhaps interrupted occasionally by the odd email or call that needs immediate servicing. Then, when the weekend arrives, it's time to head back home… and to […]
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