John T. Reed’s succeeding blog

Copyright John T. Reed 2014 My book Succeeding is about helping you find the right career for you as early as possible in your life. It’s first sentence is You belong somewhere. Robert Kaplan wrote a book titled What You’re Really Meant To Do, subtitled “A road map for reaching your unique potential.” That sounded like what my book was about so I bought his and read it. Harvard Business professor Kaplan is a Harvard Business School professor. My wife and I are both Harvard MBAs. So is Kaplan. He was previously vice chairman of Goldman Sachs. Briefly, in the...

Copyright by John T. ReedWhen you become successful, you may be tempted to buy your first convertible. Enjoy, but there are some things you need to know. Do not use the windshield washer or headlight washer when the top is down.Put the side windows up when you have the top down. It often gets too cold and windy if you lower the side windows.Get a broad-brimmed hat that is tied to you so it doesn’t blow off. Or not, in which case you can get skin cancer on the tops of your ears and elsewhere. I recommend a Tilley hat...

Copyright 2014 by John T. ReedSusan Patton, a woman who graduated from Princeton (’77) has written a book titled Marry Smart. I have not read it, but its main point apparently is as the Wall Street Journal says,Find a husband on campus before you graduate because never again would these high-achieving and highly ambitious young women have access to so large a pool of single young men who were their intellectual equals.I have written a sort of inside-out and somewhat different version of that with regard to going to my undergraduate alma mater West Point. I think this is a...

This is a check list I created for my own use. It occurred to me that others could benefit from it so why not put it at my Web site.I took my car in for a recall and service this morning, drove all the way home in a loaner car and realized my house key was with my car key at the dealership. A wasted hour of driving back to get the house key. I also forgot to take one of my Coke Zero’s out of the trunk and thereby blew my diet at McDonalds drinking a regular Coke. I...

This is a check list I created for my own use. I literally use it still for all my trips. Recently, it occurred to me that others could benefit from it so why not put it at my Web site.You use this both to do before or pack when you leave on a business trip and to pack while on the trip before you return home. The latter is to make sure you do not leave anything in your hotel room, relative’s house, distant office, etc.I'm sure there are other things that could be added. If you think of one,...