Tag: excellence

Great Things Are Made of Little Things

June 8, 2014

At a recent lunch in downtown Detroit, I received a very thoughtful fortune inside my after-meal cookie. Unlike the platitudes that often fill these crunchy treats, this ‘fortune’ really got me thinking. The crumpled white paper read, “Great things are made of little things.” This simple, yet profound thought stayed with me for days. It […]

On Tooth Decay

January 13, 2013

As kids, our well-intentioned dentist forcefully instructed us to “Brush and floss twice each day.” Sound advice that we largely ignored. After we blew off that first evening chore and realized the world didn’t end, we became more ambivalent on following the regimen with precision. We’d blow off a brush here and a floss there. […]