Character – The Musings of the Big Red Car

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 Cloud of Darkness Versus Joie De Vivre

Big Red Car — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:19:04 +0000

On the morning of my wedding in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on 1 December 1979, I heard a knock on my door at the Hilton Hotel in downtown. Rising with the nervous energy one would expect on such a day, verifying it was just after six in the morning, I opened the door to find a […]

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Persuasion

Big Red Car — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:59:55 +0000

I read and listen to a lot of current events, news, sports, and I am interested in politics. There is a trend that I am concerned with — the total lack of persuasion in the message. I see this in, of course, politics, but also such things as the climate debate and the discussion of […]

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The Fredo 2019

Big Red Car — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:31:41 +0000

Big Red Car today announces a new award, The Fredo. The Fredo is awarded annually to the individual who best exemplifies the character of Frederico “Fredo” Corleone in Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather. In case you have been overseas for a long time (maybe living in Ukraine working for Burisma) or residing in a cave, […]

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Survivors

Big Red Car — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:31:20 +0000

Several years ago, I was at a funeral with a friend with whom I had served in the Army a million years ago. We had all been lieutenants — me, my friend, and the decedent — full of piss and vinegar, deployed overseas, sure of ourselves, though no logical reason why. I had gotten a […]

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Sportsman’s Barber Shop — One Of My Safe Places

Big Red Car — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:18:57 +0000

Every man requires a few safe places that bring them comfort and keep them connected to who they are and from whence they have come. Regardless of how high you climb, there will be a place that reminds you of you. One of mine is Sportsman’s Barber Shop in Austin By God Texas. I have […]

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Manliness Revisited

Big Red Car — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:32:10 +0000

We are more desperately in need of this type of thinking than ever before. We need to produce MEN, not men. We need guys like our fathers, who won World War II by kicking the crap out of the Nazis and the Japs and made the world safe. Guys like George (NMI) Washington, who founded […]

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Inspiration – Beginning a New Year

Big Red Car — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:56:35 +0000

Big Red Car here on a brilliant, sunny Thursday in the New Year. 2019, YOUR year! Every new year I look for inspiration and for inspiration for my clients. I always find inspiration in Churchill. Surprised? No, the guy saved the Western World from the scourge of the Nazis at a time when the English […]

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Courage — CEO Shoptalk

Big Red Car — Thu, 25 May 2017 14:08:36 +0000

Courage is quiet. It is unassuming in its moment. Big Red Car here in the ATX where it is that time of the year when it’s 65F at dawn and this afternoon it will be in the low 90s. Those first warm days are a blessing, but it’s almost June and it’s almost summer, so […]

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Politics, Not Everything Is Political

Big Red Car — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:07:34 +0000

Big Red Car here and I’m really angry. Vexed. Irked. Pissed off. I have waited until almost noon to write this so my anger might dissipate and my calm might temper my comments. It has not worked. Last night during President Trump’s State of the Trump talk to a joint session of Congress, the President […]

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