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SPINE FOR RENT? The lost art of decision making. by Blaine Pardoe Decision making has become something of a lost art in the corporate world. There are a lot of reasons for this, but all seem to have one thing in common: to make a decision, good or bad, has risk associated with it. Why not simply make good decisions? Well, people who make decisions sometimes make the wrong ones and, as a result, suffer at the hands of weak-minded upper management. Because of this, many managers and employees are in-bred thinking, "It's better to make no decision than a wrong one." There seems to be a disparity in some companies when it comes to decision making. Pardoe's Fifth Law of Grossly Incompetent Management is this: "The bigger the bad decision, the less impact on your career." There is also the corollary to this law: "The higher you are in the management food chain, the bigger the mistake you are allowed to make." (Hey, I don't claim to understand why th...

Best fishing day with the largest bass I ever caught 8 lbs! Wow!!. Of course I had to let him go to get bigger!

Boy did I have a lucky fishing day today I ended up catching both,  large bass Mama and Daddy that were hanging around the boat docks at Ray Roberts Marina I've been trying to catch these guys for at least a couple weeks, ended up catching them on the neutral colored fake worm, in addition to a large crappy it was a great fight for both fish in addition to the crappy. Of course I let them all go they were just a little too small to keep in addition, there are not many types of this fish in that lake, so I gave them a break, they were protecting their local babies along the shoreline so just wanted a good sport fish and a good challenge it worked out great. The pictures of my shoe next to the fish just imagine that my shoe size is 15" so the two bass must been at least 17 inches in length and they were definitely fat.