Personal Highlights:

• Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and...
• (Originally “corn” was a generic English word for any kind of grain, even a grain of salt—hence “corned beef” it didn’t take long for Zea...
• the shelled cobs were burned for heat and stacked by the privy as a rough substitute for toilet paper. (Hence the American slang term “corn hole.”)

Personal Highlights:

• During this lean, competitive period, I also learned what a powerful recruiting tool the Zagat Survey could be. When a restaurant ranks among Zagat’s top-forty...
• If you exert constant pressure that isn’t gentle, employees may burn out, quit, or lose their graciousness—and you will probably cease to attract good employees....
• ULTIMATELY, THE MOST SUCCESSFUL business is not the one that eliminates the most problems. It’s the one that becomes most expert at finding imaginative solutions...