REMEMBER! If you proceed beyond this page – the terminus page, where I give you the BeagleSword –you’re likely to see sales pitches, political opinions, religious orientation, politically incorrect humor – there’s no telling what.  Bottom line: this is the end of the safe zone. Proceed at your own risk.

One year after his success in The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman couldn’t get a job playing a dead guy in a cowboy movie. No one believed he could act. So he put on a raincoat and took a chance at night in Central Park. This scene from his next movie, Midnight Cowboy, is one of the most […]

CLICK HERE to read Chapters 1-4 CHAPTER FIVE – Alignment of the Pillars “Sunshine, when you were looking at Sam Walton’s 10 Commandments, you said you felt Wal-Mart was still being guided by 2 of them, but that the company seems to have abandoned the other eight. Do you remember what those 8 had in common?” […]

Here’s the link to Chapters 1-3 CHAPTER FOUR – Customer Centric The younger man took a seat, placed his laptop on the table and immediately went to work. The old man carried two Ventis to the table, placed the jumbo marshmallow alongside the young man’s computer and quietly snapped a photo. The younger man never noticed. The old man […]

HERE’S THE LINK TO CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO CHAPTER THREE “Turn around and go back to that Starbuck’s, Poobah. They’ve got Wi-Fi and I want to use my laptop.” The old man took the next exit, looped under the overpass and headed back the way they had come. “Do you want me to start the […]

Here’s a link to Chapter One if you missed it. – Indy Beagle CHAPTER TWO “Sunshine, do you remember the four unifying principles of George Eastman?” “I remember one was, ‘Keep the price of the product low so the customer will find more uses for it,’ and another one was, ‘Listen to what the customer […]

CHAPTER ONE The car door closed and they were alone. As the old man backed down the driveway, the younger man spoke. “Thanks for doing this with me Poobah.” “It’s what Poobahs are for, Sunshine.” Nothing else was said until they were on the highway. A billboard announced “Starbucks 12 miles ahead.” The younger man […]

Lesson for the Cognoscenti: as his valediction, or toast, or blessing at the end of today’s MondayMorningMemo, the wizard said, “May you walk in fields of gold.” Some people will immediately recall those words from the 1993 song by Sting, but what about the majority who won’t recall that song? “Gold” is instanty associated with wealth and abundance. And […]

The Wizard is paying $45,000 to Wizard Academy (the same $15,000/day that every other organization has to pay for private Academy Classes) so the famous Wizard of Ads partners can gather from their homes around the world in March, 2017 for a 3-day partner meeting in the academy tower overlooking Austin, Texas. Thirty businesses will participate in Day 2 […]

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Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

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Laugh Cry or Get Angry_MondayMorningMemo

People would rather be angry than bored. Anger is a form of excitement. That explains a lot of behavior, doesn’t it? But if you can choose, choose laughter. “Man is the laughing animal…” 1 Anger is dangerous and crying is much less fun. I’m talking about storytelling and communication. I’m talking about books and movies. I’m talking […]

“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. […]

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The Wizard is paying $45,000 to Wizard Academy (the same $15,000/day that every other organization has to pay for private Academy Classes) so the famous Wizard of Ads partners can gather from their homes around the world in March, 2017 for a 3-day partner meeting in the academy tower overlooking Austin, Texas. Thirty businesses will participate in Day 2 […]

People would rather be angry than bored. Anger is a form of excitement. That explains a lot of behavior, doesn’t it? But if you can choose, choose laughter. “Man is the laughing animal…” 1 Anger is dangerous and crying is much less fun. I’m talking about storytelling and communication. I’m talking about books and movies. I’m talking […]

 

Here’s the opening paragraph of that Foreword. Here’s a later paragraph. Click it (below) to read the entire Foreword at Oprah.com

Recorded 2 and 1/2 years later, the version below is the one you remember.

Do you remember this from a few months ago? Take another look, then scroll to the bottom of the page to see what Liam is releasing now. Heh, heh, heh. – Indy

Manley teaches an amazing fundraising class at Wizard Academy. This is an audio clip of the last time he taught. You should pester Vice-Chancellor Whittington to schedule another class with Manley. Daniel@WizardAcademy.org

The Wizard is paying $45,000 to Wizard Academy (the same $15,000/day that every other organization has to pay for private Academy Classes) so the famous Wizard of Ads partners can gather from their homes around the world in March, 2017 for a 3-day partner meeting in the academy tower overlooking Austin, Texas. Thirty businesses will participate in Day 2 […]

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Paired Opposites and Third Gravitating Bodies  

Paired Opposites and Third Gravitating Bodies* A Gravitating Body is anything that tugs at your attention. Two gravitating bodies with a high degree of divergence are known as Paired Opposites.  Employ them and you’ll get attention. But when you add a third gravitating body – something highly divergent from both of the first two – and it fits – you are […]

“…He had decided that the German retreat across the Ruhr meant the war was over, and he was not interested in counter-argument. He dismissed Diddens’s halfhearted insistence that in fact they were still enemies, saying he could not speak for Diddens but that a priest could not have enemies any more than a hog butcher […]

At 4 feet wide, it’s the biggest woodcut print I’ve ever seen. Don Quixote and The Hounds was created in 1956 by Don LaViere Turner when he was just 26 years old. The style is German Expressionist. Looks like something from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, doesn’t it? There are only 24 of these in the world, and they […]

Mid 20th century Studio Art pottery in surrealist style, “Don Quixote,” by Franz Walter Bergmann,  (Austrian/American, 1898 – 1977)

You can subscribe to The Atlantic here and get immediate access. Glenn Beck looks like the dad in a Disney movie. He’s earnest, geeky, pink, and slightly bulbous. His idea of salty language is bullcrap. The atmosphere at Beck’s Mercury Studios, outside Dallas, is similarly soothing, provided you ignore the references to genocide and civilizational […]

Here’s the link to the whole story. The photos are below.  

Be sure to read the comments below the photo… Indy Jeff, I showed it to the wizard. Here’s what he said, “If a Wizard Academy student came up with this idea, I would encourage him or her because it’s brilliant. Joseph’s perspective is often overlooked. This billboard is not going to be ignored. That being said, I […]

I thought I was the first to arrive, so I was waiting for the hostess to seat me when the wizard snapped this. Can you believe I never noticed the ceiling? I really need to look up more often. – Indy

The Mind of Christ Do you know the thoughts of God? Do you presume to give him advice, or to be able to speak on his behalf? We know what Jesus thought because we heard his words and we saw his actions.1 We should say the kinds of things that Jesus said and do the […]

Do you know the thoughts of God? Do you presume to give him advice, or to be able to speak for him? But we know what Jesus thought because we heard his words and we saw his actions.1 We heard his words and we saw his actions. We heard his words and we saw his […]

This week A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on national prime time television for the 50th time. In a world where the latest greatest technology is outdated in a matter of months, and social media trends come and go in a matter of days, 50 years of anything becomes quite meaningful. I was in the first grade […]