Worth the Effort

I’m in Lisbon this week for advisory board meetings of a Portuguese business school, ISCTE, which I have the privilege to serve.  This is my second visit to this beautiful and vibrant city.  Last October when I arrived for my first set of board meetings, I knew nothing about Portugal, not a word of Portuguese, […]

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Speaking Horse

Over the years, I’ve learned a cursory amount of foreign languages.  For instance, I can get by in French and in Spanish… I can read Hebrew, though I have little idea of what the words mean when I do… I’m currently taking an online course in basic Portuguese… and, frankly, I’m still working on my […]

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Words Matter

My company, Kauffman FastTrac, is hosting its quarterly certification event for our new clients today.  During lunch, I had a most interesting chat about the new nature of conversation with a group of folks from academic institutions spanning the globe – their universities are located in places like California, Kansas and Turkey.  Each expressed an […]

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