“If the flight attendants on the JAL 747 from Tokyo I"m on right now were to, in a remarkable lapse of Japanese standards of service, throw me off the plane with a parachute, I could do a pretty nice roll when I hit the ground.”
From my Inc. Magazine column for April (subscribe here). And with that, I promise to stop telling shaggy dog stories about my days in the army.
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>>Publish Date: 4/10/2008 7:15:14 AM
>>Keywords: great software
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