The Best Metaphor for the Modern Day CEO:

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Motorcycle riding without a helmet.

"I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about business," it goes, "than sitting in my office thinking about riding my motorcycle."

That saying is also the foundation for his latest business venture, Biker's Guide to Business LLC.

DeVille is targeting executive-level motorcycle riders he calls "business bikers." His goal: Develop a "workshop on wheels," with him leading chief executives with motorcycle licenses through five days of business coaching in places such as the Colorado mountains.

Bike Week events this weekend DeVille, who has run a Maitland-based consulting service since 1994, hopes to draw a connection between riding a motorcycle and running a business.

"If you're going to put yourself on the back of a motorcycle and expose your relatively unprotected body to the elements, to those crazy 'cagers' out there, you understand reasonable and controllable risk," DeVille said. "Cagers" by the way, is bike lingo for people who drive cars and trucks.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-biz-biz-bikers-022709,0,7949425.story

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. They're squids... on or off the road.

a) do me a favor, ride your motorcycle while thinking about riding your motorcycle. I've been riding for 30+ years, and the saddle is no place for daydreaming.

b) do me another favor. If you're gonna take a $1m paycheck, think about your job while doing your job.

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2. I love it!

[Fovea]

5. Bingo, says the former Orthopedic OR nurse

and motorcyclist -- current bicyclist.

You are spot on, man.

[Locrian]

3. Oh god...

Lord I ****hate**** these wannabe folksy business types trying sooooooo hard to be cool and "zen".

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4. My neighborhood is full of them.

Can't dismiss them. I do know one, personally, who is a sweetheart of a guy, but, he's completely consumed by the right-wing rhetoric. Even built a crow's nest in his million dollar home. He's the exception to the rule, as far as good hearts go.