By Randy Zwitch - February 4th, 2010

Category:
Residency 3: Delhi
Mr. Goodkat: A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.
Nick: Never heard of it.
Mr. Goodkat: It’s not something people hear about. Falls on deaf ears mostly. This particular one has been over twenty years in the making. No small matter. Requires a lot of planning. Involves a lot of people. People connected by the slightest of events. Like whispers in the night, in that place that never forgets, even when those people do. It starts with a horse.
- From the movie Lucky Number Slevin
Continue reading
By Randy Zwitch - December 21st, 2009

Category:
Semester 2
Never say Never. An expression often spoken by optimists, to diffuse the pessimism espoused by those of us with a more cynical (or, “analytical” as I like to think about it) nature. The irony, of course, is that by using that phrase you say ‘never’ twice. Regardless, I’m going to bend the common meaning of the phrase, to make it feel optimistic:
There will NEVER be another exam as hard as the Decision Models exam we just took.
Continue reading
By Randy Zwitch - August 27th, 2009

Category:
General,
Residency 1: London

I haven’t seen a beatin’ like that since somebody stuck a banana in my pants and turned a monkey loose! - Cousin Eddie, Vegas Vacation
If you’re wondering what this has to do with management, Duke, or wondering if I’ve just snapped, this quote was given by Ben Sossa, Director of Program Delivery at Duke, describing the crowd of 120 Fuqua students he found before him last evening.
Continue reading
Recent Comments