Advice – The Musings of the Big Red Car

Leadership And Artificial Intelligence

Big Red Car — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:43:18 +0000

In life and in leadership there are things we know or we don’t know that bear on our ability to be a successful leader. We know what we know. We sometimes know what we don’t know. We always don’t know what we don’t know. The limitations of this last one — not knowing what we […]

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The Power of Imperfection

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:08:43 +0000

DISQUS IS HAVING SYSTEMWIDE ISSUES AND YOUR COMMENTS ARE NOT SHOWING UP BELOW. IT IS IS A SYSTEMWIDE PROBLEM AND THEY ARE WORKING ON IT. I CAN READ YOUR COMMENTS EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NOT SHOW UP. If I eliminated all the imperfections in my life, I would erase myself completely. I am a colossal […]

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In The Absence Of Talent

Big Red Car — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:24:44 +0000

In addition to mentoring CEOs, I often speak to promising young persons — usually sent my way by their parents — to give them wise counsel as to how to fashion their career or to find the right career. A good many of them have an entrepreneurial bent — so they think — and a […]

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The Three Horsemen: Discipline, Risk, Regret

Big Red Car — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:32:39 +0000

If you are pondering your future — who isn’t? — allow me to introduce the Three Horsemen: discipline, risk, regret. You will harness and ride some or all of them in your life and they are both your loyal friend and vicious enemy depending upon how you create the relationship. Discipline There is no success […]

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Self Control, Discipline

Big Red Car — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:40:24 +0000

A guy calls me up and asks, “What’s the smallest action somebody can take to improve their chances of success?” Interesting question — “smallest” was the keyword here. So, I think about that and I say, “Exercise just a modicum of self-control which means impose discipline.” He laughs. He is prone to laughter, pleasant chap. […]

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Raising Children and Affirming Performance in the Workplace

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:03:18 +0000

As I become more versed in dealing with grandchildren — I have three perfect granddaughters and live three houses distant from them — I harken back to the vicissitudes of raising my own children, training combat engineers in the Army, running companies with hundreds of employees, and peddling advice to CEOs through the Wisdom of […]

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A Personal Letter to President Joe Biden

Big Red Car — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 06:41:14 +0000

Dear Mr. President, I have been watching your reaction to the build up and attack on Ukraine by Russia — going on for a year, amigo — and I would like to share with you some advice and thoughts. You do realize that Vladimir Putin thinks you are a weak leader, lack the resolve to […]

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Hanlon’s Razor and Other Adages

Big Red Car — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:15:40 +0000

I am in New York City freezing my ass off. I come every year to see the Veterans Day Parade (which was a huge disappointment this year). I hate cold weather, but I voluntarily came to NYC, so who can I blame? I can only blame myself which brings me to my thought for today. […]

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In Praise of Skepticism REVISITED

Big Red Car — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:07:24 +0000

The other day a chap accuses me of being a “skeptic” about matters pertaining to the Chinese. I stand, say, “Guilty as charged.” The police come, march me away and I decide to write a blog post to explain why being skeptical is the adult position on many things. Then, I recall that back in […]

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Dreams

Big Red Car — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 22:19:17 +0000

As a kid, I never had ambitious dreams. I did what was offered to me by life, which turned out to be a lot, but I never really had ambitious dreams. I wish I’d been more ambitious. People tell me I was and am ambitious, but I know I wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I […]

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