Our dog’s favorite activity is stealing crumpled wads of paper from my waste baskets and racing around the office with them, tearing them up into little tiny pieces spread from north to south.

She is a shredder with no receptacle. She is an interesting dog in many respects. Notably her fierce independence. She will play with a crumpled ball of paper thrown for her but she prefers picking one out, standing onhind legs, and taking what she wants.

Even after a leg operation, she hates being picked up to a couch, chair or my lap and wants to jump and get up there on her own. Too bad more people don’t have such a profound preference for self-reliance.

Cleaning up her paper mess, once before a work day here with Sydney Biddle Barrows, and a few days later,before a consulting day with Ron LeGrand and Entourage, made me think about the making of messes and the cleaning up of messes. This is nothing new for me to mention, but I thought I’d mention it just the same,as so many entrepreneurs make so little headway so slowly because of their aversion to messes.
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