August 1991
In George Plimpton’s book, ‘Paper Lion’, one of the football players reportedly said that their team hadn’t lost, it had just run out of time. Are you running out of time too? Before you can answer that question objectively, you have to know (a) the name of the game, (b) whether you’re actually playing or not, (c) what you have to do to put points onto the score board, (d) how many points it takes to win, (e) how much time you’ve got left to play and (f) how many points you already have on the board. As we enter this summer of 1991, might not this be a good time to take stock? Let’s see if we can answer some of the above questions in an effort to see how we’re doing. we’ll start with the name of the game.