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Stinky! A Profile of Washed Rind Cheeses
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They're the stinkiest of any cheese you'll find behind the counter. They're the ones that make you search your refrigerator for something that's gone bad. In this week's Cheesemonger column, a profile on the washed rind family of cheeses: how to pick them out, some of the best even for the non-converts, and understanding the difference between a bad stink and a good one.
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Washed rind cheeses are bathed in some kind of liquid solution-- normally a saltwater brine-- during their aging process. Hence the term, "washed." The practice originated in the middle ages, in monasteries, where there was plenty of wine, beer, and spirits available from those artisan monks who busied themselves with their making. Washing the outside of a cheese not only protected the interior paste by preventing the rind from cracking, but it also produced, they found, cheese with a meaty, more pungent flavor that was a surprisingly welcome replacement for meat during periods of religious fasting.
Washing in a brine or booze solution cultivates the growth of brevibacterium linens (or b-linens), bacteria unique to washed rinds, thereby resulting in less acidic cheese with a pronounced pungency. The bacteria itself is smelly, which explains, in short, why the cheese becomes so, as well. It's also a pinkish-orangish tone, so all washed rind cheeses have a rind that falls in that color spectrum.
How to pick out a washed rind cheese:
Washed rind cheeses should look moist, but not slick or too sticky. There should be a slightly tacky texture to the rind. Cracking of the rind is probably indication of a very ripe cheese if the interior is oozing from the cracks, in which case it may be perfectly fine (but should be eaten quickly). If there is light brown or pinkish discoloration of the rind or interior paste,or if the rind looks as if it's cracked from being too dry, the cheese is probably just old. The interior should be soft and supple, or with some varieties, oozing and unctuous.
Some of our favorite varieties:
These cheeses are relatively easy to find:
- Taleggio- pasteurized cow, Lombardy, Italy
- Epoisses- pasteurized cow, Burgundy, France
- Ardrahan- pasteurized cow, County Cork, Ireland
- Meadow Creek Dairy, Grayson- raw cow, Galax, Virginia
- Haystack Mountain Dairy, Red Cloud- raw goat, Niwat, Colorado
- Cowgirl Creamery, Red Hawk- Pt. Reyes Station, California
How do you tell a good-bad smell from a bad-bad smell?
Don't be frightened off by the stink of a washed rind. Especially if you don't have much experience with them, know that their bark is always louder than their bite. At best, a washed rind cheese will have a fermented, fruity, pleasantly funky quality, with such richness and creaminess that it may actually come off as sweet. Watch out for ammonia or Windexy smells, which signal that your cheese may be past its prime. Listen to your instincts! If the cheese smells just plain rotten, it probably is.
A note on the rind
Washed rinds may have a bit of crunch or a sandy quality in their rind, which indicates the presence of residual salt crystals left behind from their washings. Whether or not to eat the rind is a matter of personal choice. Sometimes it will enhance your experience of the cheese, and other times it may taste bitter or off. If that bitterness has made its way to the paste, it's definitely gone bad, so just toss it.
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Mmm. Stinky chesse. I had a big hunk of cowgirl last week and it was devine.
A few years ago I was visiting friends out west and took a selection of cheese from Murray's as a gift. I put the cheese in the overhead bin on the plane and when we landed, someone opened the bin and started complaining about the stink. I just sat in my seat and smiled!
Oh, I know a photo of Red Hawk when I see it and my mouth is watering at the prospect. It's been too long and so there may be a trip to Whole Foods in the near future.
Ahhh, Red Hawk! I'm a west-coaster by birth and I remember many, many years ago when we first started getting Cowgirl Creamery cheeses up in Oregon we always got a round of Red Hawk at Christmas time, and my dad would rig a temporary "cave" for it in a little cooler in the garage to contain the stink!
red hawk was my first love, but i've since been introduced to meadow creek's grayson and i adore that too for its firmer texture. yum!
Mmm, taleggio...possibly my favorite cheese in the world.
Red Cloud is a raw goat, not a cow, but certainly fabulous. I personally love the raw Taleggio from whole foods, and Cato Corner's Hooligan, and Grayson, and Brescianella, and Tomme de Berger.. oh how I miss being a cheesemonger every time I read your articles, Nora!


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Should the selling & using of cigarette & tobacco be banned in the world? If yes, state how can its production be stopped?
After reading many articles & surverys regarding the use of Cigarette & tobacco, many people strictly condemn the selling & using of cigarette & tobacco. It is always written on the pack of a cigarette that " Smoking is injurious to health & causes lung cancer" but still people smoke it. Same is the case with tobacco. It causes several diseases in humans too. But still people use tobacco despite of being well-aware of its side-effects.
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Nadav Tropp 30+Feb 5 2014: The main question is how enforceable such a ban would be.
If its realistically enforceable, probably a good idea. If its not, we'll end up with a situation like alcohol prohibition in the US; a rise in organized crime and illegal and reckless use of the stuff. Not to mention tax revenue loss, which is unavoidable either way.
Passing a law you can't stand behind does nothing but undermine your authority and encourage people to break it. Alcohol couldn't be banned because people could easily smuggle it across the border or just make it in their basement. Now, I don't know the first thing about tobacco farming, but a hunch tells me its non-enforceable.
Feb 5 2014: Such a ban would be more than 90% efficient if imposed. There must be punishments announced for the persons committing this offence and the ones guilty must be punished publicly so that others can learn a lesson from it.
The main reason for what I dislike and oppose the cigarette is that the non-smoker is more affected by the smoke of the cigarette than the smoker. Also it is a kind air pollution.
Nadav Tropp 30+Feb 5 2014: Like they tried with banning marijuana in the US?
All that accomplished was land a few million people in jail who would have otherwise stayed out of it over what is in the rest of the developed world considered a minor offense.
Some deterrents apparently don't work very well... Maybe we should try Singapore's model? Draconian it might be, but it gets results.
Don't get me wrong, I don't smoke and I don't condone smoking, of any material. However, when looking to solve a problem, one must look to see that his solution doesn't cause more harm then good.
Feb 9 2014: I am a smoker, and I chew, I will even dip. I find them all to be disgusting, shameful (because they scream: This guy is a stinky dumb dumb, or a grotesque dumb dumb, and all the chemicals they put in it are polluting my body (which has a seemingly endless list of adverse effects), making it harder to breathe,. I've wished many times that tobacco wasn't readily available, legal and broken down to purchase so easily that if I have $1.00 I can get a nicotine fix within a few hundred feet of my house. If I had to buy in bulk, say a year's worth of cigarettes which would cost me $2,190 usd for a year's supply if i payed $5 a pack and smoked only a pack a day I would say "hell no." And people can be very picky or flexible about their method of consuming nicotine, so it would have to ban all types, or maybe at first not the vaporizers because they are supposedly less harmful to individuals and to the environment (maybe just because the lack of combustion?, maybe that and less additives? maybe its horrors are just undiscovered?(the first guy to get boozed up didn't say "i shouldn't do this I don't want my liver to fail.")) Regardless of what methods we take (and a lot of activism and government help is moving us in the right direction here in the US) tobacco has no benefits at all and should be the first substance abuse/addiction target because most people don't confidently boast "I'll smoke til I die" well at least not in reference to nicotine products. I think the underlying issue here isn't as simple as banning cigarettes or nicotine products in general, but eliminating substance dependency wherever there is a want or need for it. My grandma always said "its not what you have its what you do w/ it" so these goals which we are contemplating, if achieved, would help us in the fight against poverty, disease/conditions, the destruction of our habitat at our own hands and probably many more things.
Feb 9 2014: I think this whole awarding punishments for harming ones' self or doing things others disagree w/ idea sucks, not just w/ tobacco products, but in general, it doesn't work if you look into things like recidivism or the repercussions of a vital family role being missing (imagine if your favorite movie was missing its starring or supporting actor/actress, it would suck right? imagine the lives of people w/ their substance/socioeconomic abuse free parents in their life vs their substance/socioeconomic abusive parents being either in or out of their lives the story sucks a lot less for the main character (the kids.)
Feb 5 2014: Your argument speaks to why we should decriminalize all drugs, even heroine. We can not enforce the law 100%, so just give rise to criminal gangs making huge profit importing it. Same with prostitution and gambling.
Heck, we cannot enforce extortion laws 100%, creating criminal gangs running protection rackets (pay us and we will not beat you up, still your stuff, burn down your business).
Nadav Tropp 30+Feb 5 2014: I wasn't aiming for 100%, merely reasonable enforceability.
So say, alcohol which is easily smuggled in country (as its legal practically everywhere else), and can be fermented from anything from fruit to grain in people's basement, enforcement is unrealistic, hence the failure of the US' prohibition.
Something like heroin, which is much harder to smuggle (as its not freely available in most of the rest of the world), and which can't be easily concocted in people's basement, enforcement is a lot more realistic, even if it'll never reach 100%.
Of course, the damage done by the material in question is also a consideration. Heroin is a lot more destructive then alcohol or tobacco, assuming a given amount of the stuff (in practice the former two do more damage because they're more widespread, but still).
As for whether a tobacco ban is realistically enforceable, I haven't a clue. I don't know the first thing about tobacco farming, though what I can tell you is that it'll be readily available abroad to smuggle in country.
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For his 23rd birthday Josh Morgan asked the community to give him one gift: the opportunity to give clean water to places without it. Two and a half years later, Josh is seeing the results from his campaign.
In 2011 Josh Morgan was inspired to give people clean water for his birthday after seeing Scott Harrison, the founder of 'Charity: Water' speak at the Catalyst leadership conference in Atlanta. Mogan said "I was moved as he spoke about how his life had been changed by meeting the need of clean water for people that were dying because of the things that they were drinking."
His original goal was to have 20 people give $23 in honor of his birthday. However –the campaign quickly took off. When his birthday arrived friends and family had given $1,000 to help give people clean water.
Over the past two years the Charity:Water organization has been sending updates to Morgan as well as his supporters. They have been showing the progress and delays of the project, and the Morgan project had many due to government regulations and construction delays.
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Harford County's law enforcement agencies and fire departments generally don't limit their members from accepting discounts like the one offered to police and the military at the Sonic restaurant that got some Bel Air volunteer firefighters disciplined.
Local law enforcement agencies likewise have policies on employees using social media, as do the local fire companies for their volunteer members, though the policy varies from company to company, one official said.
The Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company, which recently suspended and reprimanded firefighters after they complained about not getting discounts at Sonic in Bel Air, allows its members to receive special offers, a spokesperson said.
Four Bel Air firefighters were disciplined over comments they made on Facebook, which included suggestions someone should set a Dumpster fire at the Bel Air Sonic restaurant, where one member claimed he was denied a discount available to police and the military, and then not respond to the fire call.
"There is no BAVFC policy regarding the accepting of discounts at any food or convenience stores," fire company spokesperson Rich Gardiner wrote in an e-mail. "The offers of discounts occur frequently to our members, in uniform and not in uniform. Some accept them, so[me] do not."
The Harford County Sheriff's Office, meanwhile, does not allow its members to accept discounts, nor does the Maryland State Police, and at least two of the three municipal police departments in Harford set some standards regarding acceptance of discounts or gratuities.
At least one national organization says police officers should not accept discounts, gifts, gratuities or any such perks.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police has a clearly stated policy in the Abuse of Law Enforcement Powers or Position section of its Model Policy On Standards of Conduct:
"Officers shall not use their authority or position for financial gain, for obtaining or granting privileges or favors not otherwise available to them or others except as a private citizen, to avoid the consequences of illegal acts for themselves or for others, to barter, solicit, or accept any goods or services (to include, gratuities, gifts, discounts, rewards, loans, or fees) whether for the officer or for another."
It also states: "Officers shall report any unsolicited gifts, gratuities or other items of value that they receive and shall provide a full report of the circumstances of their receipt if directed."
Lt. Fred Budnick, spokesperson for the Aberdeen Police Department, said employees cannot solicit or accept gifts where such an offer could be construed as an effort to influence conduct as a police officer.
They cannot solicit a fee or reward, he said, and cannot provide any extra patrol services or treat a business differently because they offer gratuities, Budnick said.
Spokesperson Jeff Gilpin for the Havre de Grace Police Department said Thursday the department has two policies governing employees accepting gifts or gratuities.
One chapter in the policy, under abuse of position, states that employees are prohibited from using their position for personal or financial benefit or to obtain privileges not otherwise available, he said.
Another section deals specifically with gifts, Gilpin explained. It is similar to the policy set for Aberdeen Police Department employees. Havre de Grace police employees are not permitted to solicit, seek or accept a gift or gratuity, including food or drink, from any individual or business in cases in which acceptance of the gift could be construed as an effort to influence conduct, he said.
Although officers can accept discounts and offers from different restaurants, such as Sonic, Gilpin said, they can't expect it or demand it.
The Bel Air Police Department did not respond to inquiries in time for this article.
The Sonic franchise in Bel Air, the first in Harford County, opened less than two months ago. The Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company has a new substation under construction a short distance away, making the fire company and the drive-in restaurant future neighbors on Route 924.
Eddie Hopkins, the fire company's chief, said he personally visited the owner of Sonic Tuesday night to discuss what had happened. Earlier, Sonic manager Rick Joshi had said he was unaware of the Facebook posts or that any firefighters were unhappy about or had made threats regarding the business.
"I had met with him for half an hour and I was apologizing on behalf of the company and discussed the issue," Hopkins said Thursday. "He appeared to be OK with everything – I don't want to speak for him – and accepted the apology."


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Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar rose against most major peers after the Federal Reserve said it sees economic improvement even as it plans to maintain stimulus as it awaits further gains.
The greenback fell earlier before Fed policy makers ended a two-day meeting. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index of stocks has rallied to record levels this month and Treasury 10-year yields had dropped amid speculation the central bank will delay reducing its bond-buying under the quantitative-easing stimulus strategy.
"They said they're still seeing improvement in economic activity and labor market conditions, which is why we saw the dollar rebound," Eric Viloria, a senior currency strategist at Gain Capital Group LLC in New York, said in a phone interview. "But the trend is still for dollar weakness as they maintain the pace of QE."
The dollar gained 0.3 percent to $1.3714 per euro at 2:25 p.m. New York time after weakening 0.2 percent earlier. The greenback climbed 0.4 percent against to 98.55 yen.
The Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Index, which monitors the greenback against 10 major counterparts, rose 0.2 percent to 1,008.41, erasing an earlier loss.
"Taking into account the extent of federal fiscal retrenchment over the past year, the committee sees the improvement in economic activity and labor market conditions since it began its asset purchase program as consistent with growing underlying strength in the broader economy," the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement. It repeated it will "await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases."
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The best Super Bowl Sunday I can remember involved zero finger food, no half-time show, not even any football. Instead, I spent the day at Disneyland. My brother had made the realization that the 'Happiest Place on Earth' is even happier on Super Bowl Sunday when the crowds stay home to watch the big game.Although I can hardly travel to Disneyland every year, there are still plenty of ways to take advantage the Super Bowl's powers of crowd control.
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January 16, 2013: Bugaboo Strollers Recall
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with Bugaboo, today announced a voluntary recall of Bugaboo Cameleon and Bugaboo Donkey model strollers . Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
What's the Deal?
This recall involves the carry handles on Bugaboo Cameleon and Bugaboo Donkey model strollers with detachable carrycots/seats. A button on the stroller's carrycot/seat carry handle can become disengaged and cause the handle to detach, posing fall and choking hazards to young children.
The strollers were sold with a base, sun canopy and other accessories in various colors. A fabric tag on the side of the sun canopy has Bugaboo and the model name. Strollers included in the recall have a serial number that falls within the range listed below. Serial numbers are printed on the stroller's chassis, located under the carrycot/seat:
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- Serial Number 08011090900001 to 08021100800386
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Consumers should immediately remove the carry handle from the strollers and contact Bugaboo for a free replacement handle. Consumers can continue to use the strollers while awaiting the replacement handle.
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Texas A&M has reportedly found its new athletic director, which can put to rest the possibility of Georgia Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich's candidacy for the position.
However, Radakovich may find himself in a game of speculation musical chairs. The person that the San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday will take the job is South Carolina athletic director Eric Hyman. Radakovich worked at South Carolina from 1994-2000 as an associate athletic director.
Early Friday morning, in fact, the Post and Courier of Charleston listed Radakovich as a possibility to replace Hyman. (link behind pay wall)
Radakovich's name has previously been connected, legitimately or otherwise, with openings at Miami, Tennessee and, this week, Texas A&M. Wednesday, Radakovich denied a report that he was a top candidate for the A&M position.
Hyman's experience recommends him for the position as Texas A&M joins the SEC on Sunday. Hyman has worked in both the SEC and in Texas, having been athletic director at TCU from 1997 to 2005. The deal could be completed as early as Friday.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
June 29th, 2012
1:17 am
June 29th, 2012
5:40 am
Coach Spurrier and Stephen Garcia are throwing a party today celebrating this news.
June 29th, 2012
7:00 am
Actually, Dan Radakovich already has a history with South Carolina, where he was their Associate Athletic Director for 6 years. In actuality, the possibility of this job opening up is a much bigger concern to me.
June 29th, 2012
7:07 am
In 1996 Radakovic told me that the Web was a fad, and USC didn't need a website for athletics.
June 29th, 2012
7:13 am
I've lived in Atlanta and lived in Columbia. Stay in the big A, DRad.
June 29th, 2012
7:15 am
So Carolina is still not a better job than TECH.
June 29th, 2012
7:45 am
In tribute to our beloved martyred Saint Jan Kemp, let's all bow our heads for a few moments of silent prayer. Thirty years ago, this courageous young lady risked everything to expose the corruption and academic fraud instigated by Vince Dooley, sleazy practices that continue to this day under Mark Richt.
And now, let us all pray for Saint Jan…
Thank you, you can now resume your normal activities.
June 29th, 2012
7:51 am
DRad's mishandling of the football situation continues to haunt us. No one will take him off our hands. #radioactive
June 29th, 2012
8:02 am
Wow…..Texas A/M snatches a fellow SEC's AD….lets hope DRad stays.
June 29th, 2012
8:06 am
790theZone is about to drop a BOMB coming from UGa about the football team………………
June 29th, 2012
8:07 am
Isiah Crowell……ARRESTED……who wda thunk!
June 29th, 2012
8:07 am
I Crowell arrested for a Gun & False ID.
June 29th, 2012
8:09 am
@5150….looks like a altered gun……FELONY 2….OUCHIE
June 29th, 2012
8:21 am
Ealey, King & Crowell………..Richt can really pick NFL quality Running Backs.
June 29th, 2012
8:51 am
Well as guys who are used to carrying the football most of their lives, you would expect this particular position to be heavy with run-ins with the law.
June 29th, 2012
9:11 am
You can relax Danny, it appears your benefactor isn't going anywhere
June 29th, 2012
10:19 am
Don't you find it a bit ironic that so many SEC schools allegedly want the services of the Tech AD?
June 29th, 2012
10:27 am
[...] Read the article [...]
June 29th, 2012
11:37 am
S.C. is a far better job than Tech.Tech just approved an athletic budget of 59 million,S.C. approved a 80,1 million dollar budget
June 29th, 2012
11:48 am
GT receiving good news today. UGA, well they're UGA. " GO JACKETS "
June 29th, 2012
12:11 pm
weird. a uga running back causing trouble? that never happens.
June 29th, 2012
12:29 pm
Drad isn't that great of an AD. Let him go. Tech probably wouldn't have gotten probation if he wasn't so arrogant toward the NCAA charges. Also, I really don't see a large improvement in the attendance at football games nor do I see improvement in the coaching of Tech sports teams.
June 29th, 2012
12:37 pm
Hope he goes and takes his football coach with him.
Latest additions to the 2012 recruiting class were typical. 2stars w other offers from lower tier programs.
Nice work Johnson.
June 29th, 2012
2:03 pm
the uga fan base must be feeling pretty testy today, what with their best running back being charged with a couple of felonies and all.
that explains why they're all over the GT blogs, posing as terrible GT fans today.
nice try losers. no one is buying that bs. go sell it in athens. but bring some handguns to protect yourself from the football team while you're there!
June 29th, 2012
2:10 pm
DRad is a terrific AD, and for those who aren't aware, he's accomplished a ton with some serious monetary restraints. He'd be a tremendous loss for the program, and, in my opinion, would cause Paul Johnson to start to listen to other options because they have such a terrific relationship.
June 29th, 2012
2:33 pm
Bobby Cremins left GT for South Carolina looked around and decided it was a hell hole and came back, DRAD I hope you are reading this
June 29th, 2012
3:27 pm
All Saints: What changed at UGA because of Kemp ? Looks like the same ole, same ole to me. Her name may be remembered for making a valiant attempt but, alas, no cigar.
June 29th, 2012
3:28 pm
why would an SEC team want an GT athletic anything. Half of you in this blog didn't even read the whole article and started bashing Bulldogs..hehe..guess we know who rules this state..Go Dawgs..btw, we could still lose a couple more RB's and beat Tech
June 29th, 2012
4:23 pm
Is there any rule that says a convicted felon can't win the Heisman? And before you dog trolls respond, I know he has not been convicted yet. But I'll bet he becomes a convicted felon long before he becomes a Heisman winner.
June 29th, 2012
5:00 pm
Says it all! Sort of puts the BUI in perspective…
June 29th, 2012
5:01 pm
tybdwag: uga will lose a couple more RB'S this year. There's several more felonies on the books that haven't been used yet.
June 29th, 2012
6:09 pm
Old saint jan is probably kicking around a few charcoals and wishing she hadn't sold her soul trying to screw up college athletics. She never was in favor of athletics. Good riddance. Glad she was not at Tech.
June 29th, 2012
6:10 pm
wreckmanic Old Bill Clinton has an extra cigar for her
June 29th, 2012
6:11 pm
USC has more money, better facilities and is in a better conference. I don't see the appeal of Drad to USC, but if he is asked by them, he'll go. I actually think this would be good for Tech. Mediocrity rules the day in Tech athletics, and that goes back on him.
June 29th, 2012
9:23 pm
I think DRad leaving would be a big loss. The monetary problems at GT are big and very hard to solve. You are not going to get a top AD; at least a proven one to take his place. With the monetary problems and the academic standards, we are doing fairly well. We are never going to be in the class with the Alabamas of this world. Get over it.
June 29th, 2012
10:11 pm
@Isaiah Crowell for Heisman
Is there any rule that says a convicted felon can't win the Heisman? And before you dog trolls respond, I know he has not been convicted yet. But I'll bet he becomes a convicted felon long before he becomes a Heisman winner
He just might become a Heisman winner before Tech beats Georgia again.
June 29th, 2012
10:43 pm
Dan Radakovich has been and OUTSTANDING AD at Georgia Tech. If he were to leave, it would be a definite loss. Going to a place with a bigger budget and a…supposedly…"better" conference is not necessarily a "better" job. GA Tech has a fine overall athletic program that has only improved with DRad at the helm. South Carolina is a fine institution, but in the anals of college athletics GA Tech has a much longer, deeper and more storied heritage. SC might pay more, but I'd say representing GA Tech carries greater prestige. And to succeed in athletics at Tech and also within the larger goals of the Institute and Total Person Concept (started by Homer Rice in the 80s) is to be about what the mission of college athletics "should" be about. As a fan and supporter of the program for over 40 years I am in full support of DRad. I hope he stays at Tech many more years to come…
June 30th, 2012
1:35 am
DRAD has been an excellent AD at GT and we hope he is there many many more years as he acts and feels like a TECH man. Good luck to him and may God bless him whatever he does. GT loves you Dan…thanks for all yout great work.
June 30th, 2012
8:05 am
Georgia is number one! – in bankruptcies.
Near last in education, physical health, and mental health, – in the SOUTH!
We can clearly tell UGA runs this State. Don't remind us.
Uga is SUPPOSED to be the sports powerhouse of the state, or nation rather, and yet GT has won a National Championship since UGA.
Consistent failure and mediocrity. Enjoy the Thugs, rednex.
And remember you can not spell thUG without UG!
Gone Dowgs!
P S Research GT vs UGA salaries. Notice how the gap grows with the years. GT over UGA. Now who's winning?
June 30th, 2012
9:16 am
Watch this turn into something for Texas A&M. Every place this guy has gone has run a clean and winning program. USC had the same success UGA had with a lot less resources. This guy gets to Texas A&M with their money and he will be someone to deal with. Notice they have him in the western divison naturally. The entire strength of that conference is played in one division. If the conference doesn't get some balance I bet these ADs will start some action to even things up. Once again Texas A&M has money which will help them make a case.
June 30th, 2012
11:34 am
…that any time UGA football athletes get busted, response comments are made by the UGA administrators and other officials, yet when asked about Mark Richt's response to the news Richt is ALWAYS on vacation!
Hmmm, there may be a parallel here…
June 30th, 2012
3:15 pm
31-17 w
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30-24 w
45-42 (s%*t happens)
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June 30th, 2012
11:49 pm
"campus robber"
That's the best you've got. Do you read the newspaper?
July 1st, 2012
11:40 am
Systemic cheating and problems at GT are on his record. He has not won the fabled ACC football title and he hired a football coach who has won nothing of importance and football at SC in KING.
DRAD is stuck and he knows it …………just like Paul Johnson is stuck.
July 1st, 2012
5:57 pm
And which Institue was on probation fro academic fraud most recently and is on probation now?
July 2nd, 2012
8:42 am
There aqre GT grads throwing bags at Hartsfield. So true!!!!!


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The Internet is in trouble. In fact, the Internet as we knew and loved it is dead and gone. I gave a talk about that in July at TriConf in Richland, Washington. Thanks to the folks at JK Productions, you can now watch the talk for free on Vimeo.
Although I am deep into absorbing Thoreau (currently reading Wild Fruits and his Journal), I continue to ponder some of the other writing projects I have on the back burner. Of late I've had a few stray thoughts about Aristotle. Most simply, what form shall I impart to my book about his ethical philosophy, and what shall I entitle it? Having explored, by then, the literary-philosophical forms of manifesto (even sermon?), dialogue, journal, and poetry cycle for my books about Rand, Epicurus, Thoreau, and Nietzsche, what will be left? For those aware of the Aristotelian tradition, the commentary form comes quickly to mind. Not that I (slight scholar that I am) can hope to approach the great commentaries of Averroes or Aquinas; but perhaps an epitome is within my reach, especially since that's consistent with my appreciation for short books (none of the volumes in my lifelong philosophy project will be more than 60 pages or so).
Naturally, in such a brief summary it is impossible to do justice to the full breadth of a thinker's complete philosophy, so I'll need to focus on the core of it. When it comes to Aristotle's ethics, I've been searching for a concise phrase that captures the essence. One possibility is a line from Book II of the Eudemian Ethics: "ἔργον ἂν εἴη τῆς ἀρετῆς ζωὴ σπουδαία". Paraphrasing slightly: a worthy life is the work of the soul at its highest. Several key concepts are here: philosophy as something concerned above all with the practice of life; living as a form of characteristic activity or even work; goodness as naturalistic excellence instead of moralistic virtue; the noblest and highest activity as expressive of the distinctively human level of psychological potential; life as something to be taken seriously; ethics as a search for methods of living the best possible human life.
Thus a title suggests itself: Living in Earnest or, perhaps, A Worthy Life (the latter ties in well with Aristotle's emphasis on the human way of life as essentially social, not solitary).
It will likely be five or more years before I start the in-depth research required to summarize all of Aristotle's ethical philosophy in 60 pages or less, but I like the general idea I've sketched out here. Much more to come after I've written my books on Thoreau and Nietzsche...
This evening I finished reading Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Toward the very end, he writes as follows:
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy, not far off geographically.
The moon no longer reflects the day, but rises to her absolute rule, and the husbandman and hunter acknowledge her for their mistress. Asters and golden-rods reign along the way, and the life-everlasting withers not. The fields are reaped and shorn of their pride, but an inward verdure still crowns them. The thistle scatters its down on the pool, and yellow leaves clothe the vine, and naught disturbs the serious life of men. But behind the sheaves, and under the sod, there lurks a ripe fruit, which the reapers have not gathered, the true harvest of the year, which it bears forever, annually watering and maturing it, and man never severs the stalk which bears this palatable fruit.
I see a connection to a paragraph (previously quoted) from one of his Letters to Harrison Blake:
Some absorbing employment on your higher ground,—your upland farm,—whither no cart-path leads, but where you mount alone with your hoe,—where the life everlasting grows; there you raise a crop which needs not to be brought down into the valley to a market; which you barter for heavenly products.
Thoreau, simultaneously naturalist and transcendentalist, always perceives the possibility of living a higher life, even partaking in moments of immortality ("the life everlasting"), as hinted in the same section of A Week:
Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature, not his Father but his Mother stirs within him, and he becomes immortal with her immortality. From time to time she claims kindredship with us, and some globule from her veins steals up into our own.
For Thoreau, such thoughts are often connected with autumn. His essay Autumnal Tints is fascinating and relevant here. He associates the fall of the year and the vibrant colors of a New England autumn with a ripening of existence, a certain mellowness and stronger flavor to life, "a late and perfect maturity", "an Indian-summer serenity", an appreciation of beauty separate from usefulness, the commencing of "a more independent and individual existence".
One of my favorite quotes from Walden is this:
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
I'm starting to think of those four virtues as intimately associated with the four seasons.
As hinted in Autumnal Tints, in the time of one's late and perfect maturity one begins to lead a spiritually more "independent and individual existence"—to grow above and beyond the societal soil in which one was planted—to reflect upon one's experience and through that reflection to become more self-reliant. Thus fall is most closely associated in Thoreau's philosophy with independence.
Summer, by contrast, is a season in which we "are all for action"—a time of high flourishing, great-hearted ambition, riotous growth, fast progress, overflowing life—in a word, with magnanimity in its original sense of greatness of soul or enhanced liveliness.
As the foundation and precursor for such flourishing, spring is a time of being planted in the soil of one's family and society, of putting roots down into that soil, of gaining strength for one's greatest growth, of achieving solidity and structure in one's identity—of hope and trust in the future. Thoreau, ever mindful of etymology, could not have been unaware that trust, truth, and tree are cognate terms whose root meaning is strength, steadfastness, loyalty, constancy, solidity.
Of winter, Thoreau observed: "The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact." (A Winter Walk.) "A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself. It is invigorating to breathe the cleansed air. Its greater fineness and purity are visible to the eye, and we would fain stay out long and late, that the gales may sigh through us, too, as through the leafless trees, and fit us for the winter,—as if we hoped so to borrow some pure and steadfast virtue, which will stead us in all seasons." Existence is stripped to its essentials, to its simplest elements.
Thus I'm beginning to feel my way along to a motif that might animate Walking With Thoreau: four seasonal walks to Thoreau's upland farm, where spring is about trust, summer about magnanimity, fall about independence, and winter about simplicity.
All this is subject to change, of course, as I read The Maine Woods, Walden, and his monumental Journals.
I've been reading Thoreau's letters to Harrison Blake, which are a veritable mine of philosophical insights. For the purposes of writing Walking With Thoreau, I'm especially interested so far in a fascinating vision he draws of cultivating the spiritual reaches of life (letter of May 28th, 1850):
Some absorbing employment on your higher ground,—your upland farm,—whither no cart-path leads, but where you mount alone with your hoe,—where the life everlasting grows; there you raise a crop which needs not to be brought down into the valley to a market; which you barter for heavenly products.
Thoreau returned to the same theme in his letter of July 21st, 1852:
All the world complain nowadays of a press of trivial duties and engagements, which prevents their employing themselves on some higher ground they know of; but, undoubtedly, if they were made of the right stuff to work on that higher ground, provided they were released from all those engagements, they would now at once fulfill the superior engagement, and neglect all the rest, as naturally as they breathe.
And again in his letter of February 27th, 1853:
The problem of life becomes, one cannot say by how many degrees, more complicated as our material wealth is increased,—whether that needle they tell of was a gateway or not,—since the problem is not merely nor mainly to get life for our bodies, but by this or a similar discipline to get life for our souls; by cultivating the lowland farm on right principles, that is, with this view, to turn it into an upland farm. You have so many more talents to account for. If I accomplish as much more in spiritual work as I am richer in worldly goods, then I am just as worthy, or worth just as much, as I was before, and no more. I see that, in my own case, money might be of great service to me, but probably it would not be; for the difficulty now is, that I do not improve my opportunities, and therefore I am not prepared to have my opportunities increased. Now, I warn you, if it be as you say, you have got to put on the pack of an upland farmer in good earnest the coming spring, the lowland farm being cared for; ay, you must be selecting your seeds forthwith, and doing what winter work you can; and, while others are raising potatoes and Baldwin apples for you, you must be raising apples of the Hesperides for them. (Only hear how he preaches!) No man can suspect that he is the proprietor of an upland farm,—upland in the sense that it will produce nobler crops, and better repay cultivation in the long run,—but he will be perfectly sure that he ought to cultivate it.
Perhaps I can structure Walking With Thoreau as a series of seasonal walks to Thoreau's upland farm? The idea is growing on me...
A long time ago in an Internet far, far away, there happened a series of skirmishes known as the Instant Messaging Protocol Wars, involving brave warriors from the SIP and XMPP communities. Words were exchanged, epithets were hurled, swords were drawn, hand-to-hand combat ensued at IETF meetings, and much blood was shed. All for naught - as with most wars - because the real enemy (proprietary systems) invaded vast swaths of territory in the meantime.
Eventually, the combatants realized the error of their ways and sought a peaceful resolution to their conflict. Internet-Drafts were written, terms of cooperation were discussed, a working group was formed, and formal activity commenced. Six documents have resulted from this initiative, one each for core interoperability, presence, instant messaging, one-to-one chat, groupchat, and media signaling. Today, the first two of these specifications were published as RFCs: RFC 7247 (core) and RFC 7248 (presence). The other four are wending their way through the IETF's standards process and will emerge from the fog of battle sometime later this year. Stay tuned for updates. :-)
As hinted in my recent post on working through the writings of various philosophers, I think I've found an intriguing theme for the short book (Walking With Thoreau) that I aim to complete in time for the Thoreau bicentennial in 2017. The first two sentences of Thoreau's essay Walking provide a clue:
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.
One can find a tension in Thoreau's writings and in his life between the human and the natural. (Indeed, I think most reflective people feel that tension, too.) To explore it, I'm pondering the differences between the seasons of nature (which we usually conceive of as spring, summer, fall, and winter) and the seasons of man (tangent: there's a reference in there to the Yes song "Close to the Edge"). Throughout history there have been dozens of ways of dividing up the stages of life, but one approach I'm considering right now comes from the ancient Roman writer Varro's book on agriculture: preparing (e.g., plowing), planting, cultivating, harvesting, storing what's been harvested, and bringing goods to market.
Thoreau was finely attuned to the seasons, both natural and human. He knew and rejoiced in the emergence of spring, the yearly patterns of animal life, the changing colors of autumn, even the depths of winter. Immersed as he was in a mostly agricultural society (and as one who performed his own experiment in small-scale farming at Walden Pond), he was also very much aware of the challenges of trying to work with nature for human purposes (not always successfully - in his second year at Walden a late frost killed off all his plantings). Sadly, he died at the age of 44 when, one could argue, he had only just started to harvest all the knowledge and interests he had cultivated over the previous ~15 years of thinking and living.
One aspect of both Thoreau and Nietzsche that I'm looking forward to exploring is their connection to Stoicism (perhaps occasioned, in part, by their respective health problems). Although I've read a bit of the original Stoics as well as A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine, working on Thoreau and Nietzsche gives me a good excuse to delve deeply into what Seneca, Epictetus, Musonius Rufus, and Marcus Aurelius have to say about the love of wisdom and the practice of living. Thoreau absorbed Stoicism from his readings of the ancients, and if you ask me he comes across as a serenely joyous, uniquely American Stoic for whom acting accordance with nature was not merely a philosophical doctrine but very much a way of life.
Although Thoreau is often felt to be a kind of mountain man or noble savage, in fact he favored a blending of civilization and wildness - and he has, I think, much to teach us about the balance between work and leisure, indoor pursuits and outdoor pursuits, technology and nature, society and solitude, reflection and action, theory and practice, cooperation and independence, complexity and simplicity, the human and the natural. You or I might not place the balance point where he did on all those dimensions, but walking with Thoreau will certainly get each of us thinking about where it belongs.
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3 Reasons You Need to Read "Four Views on the Historical Adam" As a Ministry Leader
An early Christian thinker named Tertullian asked, "What does Jerusalem have to do with Athens?" In his day he warned against the push of the academy and philosophy against the Church and Christian faith. In our day we might ask "What does Rome have to do with Cambridge, New Haven, or Princeton?" Because in our day Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are pressing in against the Church in a similar way. But rather than philosophy, science is posing new challenges.
Put another way, "What does faith have to do with science?" This is one of the questions of our day, particularly how to reconcile the biblical creation narrative with science's evolutionary one. It's a question our people are asking, it's a question our culture is asking. And we ministry leaders must equip ourselves to answer these questions.
One resource that will equip us is the new book Four Views on the Historical Adam. It engages head on a new civil debate that has opened up between evangelicals regarding opposing views of the Bible and science. Though past debates about evolutionism and creationism lay beneath the surface of this new one, this contemporary discussion is more about whether there is a real historical Adam.
The book outlines the four primary views on the historical Adam held by evangelicals. It's a pastoral resource as much as a theological one. And as a pastor myself I recommend it to you for 3 important reasons: because your people are asking questions; our answers impact our theology; and this book generates respectful, truthful conversation.
Greed Isn't the Engine of a Flourishing Economy. Scott Rae Reminds Us What Is And Why Cultivate It
If you follow the news at just a cursory glance you know from several front page scandals that the business world is suffering from ethical dehydration. From WorldCom to Enron to Arthur Anderson and beyond, people in the corporate world seem to need re-schooling in ethics.
But then there are the consumers who helped tip our economy over the edge into the Great Recession, too. They bought houses they couldn't afford after lying about income they never had. Others refinanced their mini-McMansions in order to finance that boat, third car, and trip through Europe.
In other words, every economic actor is to blame for our current economic problems because everyone , to some degree, is lacking in ethics.
This is no way to run an economy, says Scott B. Rae in his new book Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices in a World Full of Options. Because contrary to popular assumption neither corporate greed nor consumer greed is the engine of a flourishing economy and profitable business.
In his book Scott sets out to help people make moral choices in a world full of options. And one of the things I like about this book is that it does so through practical, down-to-earth chapters that connect to everyday life. One of those chapters, "Ethics in the Marketplace" reminds us of the number one necessary thing for driving our economy, which we ministry leaders have a responsibility cultivate among our people.
4 Reasons You Need to Read "5 Views on Biblical Inerrancy" As a Ministry Leader
As ministry leaders it's easy to get wrapped up in the daily administrative, leadership, and shepherding demands of our ministry. We've got to finalize next years budget, plan that awesome youth outing, or counsel a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. The are all great things, but sometimes we need to set aside time to engage with the theological demands, as well.
Enter the "views books" by Zondervan Academic. These short guides are designed to help introduce important biblical and theological evangelical "views" through evangelical voices. The latest book, Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy, presents current discussions about a crucial topic: the inerrancy of the Bible.
While you may not realize it, inerrancy is an important doctrine as well as an important ministry leadership issue. Because helping our people understand what the Bible is and how it functions impacts how they read the Bible and other areas of doctrine. There are 4 key reasons why you need to read this book in order to better serve your people in ministry.
Want to Review Andy Stanley's New Relevant Book "How to Be Rich"? Here's Your Invitation!
Zondervan would like to invite you to take part in a review blog tour for a timely, relevant new book pastor and author Andy Stanley, called How to Be Rich: It's Not What You Have. It's What You Do With What You Have.
Paul wrote to Timothy to "Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share." (1 Timothy 6:18) This is the launch point for Andy's book.
In his letter Paul asks us to imagine the difference we could make if we followed Paul's command to "Do good, be rich in good deeds, and be generous and willing to share."? Early Christians did. They were known for the extraordinary generosity they displayed. And in Be Rich, Andy challenges today's Christians to rise to the occasion. To unleash a wave of generosity. To be rich—in a big, big way.
Andy unmasks our desire to place our hopes in wealth instead of in God, while describing the different way Christians can think about using their wealth: the more you give away the richer you become.
We are excited about how Andy's new book can change the Church's conversation about money and catalyze a movement of believers who are generous with their resources. But we need your help.
We have 25 review copies to give away to a randomly selected group of people who will commit to reading and then posting a review of Andy's new book the week of January 5, by January 11, 2014. If you have a blog and would like to help, fill out all of the required information using the form below and submit by 11:59 P.M. Monday, December 16, 2013. We will randomly select 25 people for this blog tour opportunity. Sorry, due to international shipping constraints this opportunity is available for USA residents only.
4 Crucial Characteristics of a Christian Ethic That Will Fight Against Moral Relativism
Last summer the New York Times investigated allegations of widespread cheating in one of New York Cities most prestigious schools, Stuyvesant High. Apparently more than 80 students communicated about exams via text message. In a follow-up article, here was how one student involved in the alleged cheating described his rationale:
It's like, 'I'll keep my integrity and fail this test' — no. No one wants to fail a test," he said, explaining how he and others persuaded themselves to cheat. "You could study for two hours and get an 80, or you could take a risk and get a 90.
While such candor is shocking, it isn't to Scott B. Rae. He has written a new book that insists we are in an ethical mess, and we need to reignite a passion and commitment to "doing the right thing" in order for our society to remain free and prosper.
In his new book, Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices in a World Full of Options, Scott insists that part of the reason why we're in such an ethical mess, as evidenced in the above cheating scandal, is because of the incoherent views people have regarding morality, which cashes out as moral relativism. There are 4 dominate views:
- "What gives you the right to judge?"—A common refrain that insists no one has the right to make particular moral judgments.
- Follow your own conscience—Scott calls this view the "Jiminy Cricket" view of morality, in which people are encouraged to let their conscience be their guide, as in the Disney movie Pinocchio.
- Values are what you value—This view is pretty straightforward: values are defined as whatever you as an individual value.
- We make up our own moral rules for ourselves—In this common way of expressing moral relativism, either culture makes their own moral rules or individuals make up their own moral rules for themselves based on personal tastes and preferences.
Given this list it's no wonder the episode in Stuyvesant happened!
As a pastor I want to ask this: What are we ministry leaders to do in the face of such incoherence and confusion? Scott suggests there are 4 alternative crucial characteristics of a distinctly Christian ethic that will fight against the incoherence of moral relativism: Transcendence, objectivity, universality, knowability.
4 "Leadership Felonies" That Will Obliterate Your Trust and Credibility
Stop for a minute and look at your desk lamp or your ceiling. Inside is one of the most crucial inventions of the modern world: the lightbulb.
But did you know that one monumental innovation was the result of thousands of monumental failures? In response to that repeated pattern of failure Thomas Edison famously quipped, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Plenty of other successful leaders have followed suite: Abraham Lincoln lost countless elections, for years Albert Einstein was told he was stupid, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, the founder of FedEx was given a C by his business professor for his college class idea.
Stories like these are comforting, aren't they? They reassure us that our own failures and stumbles don't have to be final.
Until they are. Because as Larry Osborne explains in his new ministry leadership book, Innovation's Dirty Little Secret, the fact is some failures are final. "It doesn't matter how much we believe in ourselves or how doggedly we pursue the dream, some failures permanently close the door." (87)
In his chapter on "The High Price of Failure," Larry outlines four major "leadership felonies" all of us ministry leaders are capable of committing. If we do, they will obliterate our trust and credibility and prevent us from executing our God-given mission.
Larry Osborne Says Answering These Two Questions Will Make Your Ministry Ripe for Birthing Innovation
As a youth worker, small group leader, or pastor, what frustrates you the most in your ministry? What do you see that's not working?
In his new book Innovation's Dirty Little Secret, Larry Osborn says these two questions are crucial for birthing innovation and moving organizations to new plateaus of effectiveness.
I wish I would have known that several years ago when I worked for a unique ministry to congressional leaders in our nation's capital. The organization ministered to the spiritual needs of Senators, Representatives, and their staff through discipleship and evangelism. One of the major ways we executed our mission was by equipping congressional staffers to minister themselves.
We used a method of evangelism training that was developed in a different time and culture, focusing on answering questions about getting to heaven after death. A year in I had this sense that it wasn't working in the unique post-Christian, young adult context of Capitol Hill (quick fact: nearly 23,000 staffers work in Congress, average age is 27!). I became frustrated that my Christian friends weren't being trained properly and my non-Christian friends weren't finding Christ through this method.
Larry would have told me to listen to the two questions I asked at the beginning that were gnawing at me back then. Had I known what I know now thanks to this helpful manual on ministry innovation, I may have birthed some lasting ideas that would have brought lasting change to this community.
Again, what is frustrating you in your current ministry context? What do you see that isn't working? Answering these two questions will make your ministry ripe for innovation. According to Larry here's why:
Innovation's Dirty Little Secret: Failure Is The Norm. Larry Osborne Says Do These 2 Things To Succeed
You've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Innovate or die. But what most organization consultants don't tell you is what Larry Osborne does in his new manual for ministry innovation.
The dirty little secret about innovation is simply this: Most innovations fail.
"It doesn't matter whether we're talking about a new product, a new program, or a new process. it can be a new company or even a new church. When it comes time to start something new or make a major change, the surest horse you can bet on is the one called Failure." (17)
Well that's comforting! And sobering, especially if you're in the middle of a campaign to help right a ship that's drifted off course.
This is where Larry's new books comes in, Innovation's Dirty Little Secret. He says that he has long felt that the Innovation Emperor is naked, that the hype and promises are overblown. Perhaps you've felt the same way. Larry is here to tell you "that you're not the crazy one. When it comes to innovation and leading change, it's the conventional wisdom [about innovation] that's crazy." (26)
If you want to avoid failure, or at least minimize the chance its ugly head will pop up, then Larry suggests you do these 2 crucial things in order to better navigate the predictable risks and dangers of implementing new ideas and major organizational change.


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