What the dog saw!

  Great book – lots of small articles from the past – all very interesting.  Good, easy read.   What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell You have 55 highlighted passages You have 0 notes Last annotated on May 9, 2010 Curiosity about...

Meeting a great guy

My schedule is so off – up at 3AM – worked for a couple hours – then a few hours more sleep.   Had a meeting with J…. at 11AM.  Long time coming – it was finally time to meet one of my top competitors.  Bottom line, spend from 11AM to around 9PM...

Boston to LA and the state of USA

Early morning start – about 7am. Up quite run down, the day before was up for some 40hours and the 7 hours didn’t seem fulfilling enough. Did quick money movements and then headed for a quick coffee and breakfast. Had to be the airport at 10am so I had a...

Rest / Travel Day

Today I took it easy – body has adjusted to the European standard – so up 6AM – instead of 4AM.   Check to see if my transcriptions of my store visits came back – and they did.   So, put together all my reviews into one documents.   I...

Growing up to be a CEO

Keeping it Real Series! Ever since L…. and I started PearlsOnly  and I gradually stepped up into the CEO role, I had felt quite odd holding the CEO title.  I knew that for where this was going a CEO is the exact right title, and that I had to wear it and get...

Watching People Shop

Had an early start. Jet lagged, so I was up at 4 in the morning. Tried to get a little more rest, and then was supposed to schedule to start doing the store reviews at about 10 or 11. But I had all these thoughts in my mind from the day before, in terms of just the...

Detailed MOU Discussions

I’m catching up on this blog on Sun, the May 9th.   Basically, I was too exhausted to do anything on the 7th.  So, first – lesson for the future – when going off to meetings overseas with jet lag involved, should plan 2-3 days on the ground prior to...