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In the 1986 comedy hit Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield is a wealthy but uneducated father who goes to his son’s college to help his son through a rough period in his life. Rodney actually registers for school and the rest is pretty funny.

The reason I tell that quick and boring story is I went "Back to School" last month. In fact I have had the opportunity of doing that three times in the last five years. Since I work for a company that is owned by Omnicom, I have the opportunity to be involved in some pretty terrific programs. One of those programs is called SMP. Which is a Senior Management Program taught by a number of Harvard Business school professors during the summer at Babson. The program is truly amazing. You are in an MBA classroom setting with 53 other executives from other Omnicom companies from all over the world. For a number of days we review cases in 75 minute sessions which are mostly based on Omnicom companies and is a phenomenal learning experience.

For me personally it is very rewarding. I come back to Dallas very energized, with tons of new ideas from the professors and the other executives in the class.

I have always said there is more to learn out of the classroom than in the classroom and this situation is no different. You find yourself discussing business until midnight almost every day.

• Have you gone back to school?
   
• Did you enjoy the experience?
   
• Would you recommend it to others?
   
• Any helpful tips you could share?
   
• Now that you are a little older how hard was it to get back into the flow of things?

I look forward to reading your comments.

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Why do baseball dugouts still use the old fashioned phones that have the ugly long cords that get tangled up, to call the bullpen to warm up a pitcher? Have they never heard of cordless phones?

With most airlines cutting back 15% of their flights, isn’t there a huge number of extra planes? Where are they?

Why does every retail and convenience store sell movies and a movie theatre doesn’t?

Whatever happened to the hit show Ally McBeal. They had 5 seasons, 112 episodes but the show seemed to end overnight and to my knowledge has never been in syndication. Why? Were they blackballed?

With most states going hands-free for cell phone usage, how long will it be before car rental companies offer a Bluetooth option for $15.00 a day?

• Do you have any thoughts as to what I am curious about?
   
• What are you curious about?

I look forward to reading your comments.

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Two days ago, I celebrated something special in my life. It was the third birthday of the Merrill Dubrow Blog. When we first started this I never knew how long I would be posting on the blog. I never knew if anyone would comment and frankly I wasn’t sure if anyone would care about my opinion and what I blogged about.

In a lot of ways I was wrong. Over the past 3 years we have had:

• Over 100,000 hits on the blog
   
• Almost 6,700 comments
   
• Over 1,000 different people have posted a comment
   
• Over 435 posts

FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

I am often asked why do I write a blog and the simple answer is I enjoy sharing things and also have a deep desire to learn something every day. This blog has accomplished both of those things. I never thought in a million years that I would learn as much as I have. Although I might not agree with everything that is posted on the blog, I like hearing opinions from people like: Bob Graham, Ed Sugar, Stephenie Gordon, Jennie Lovejoy, Janet Savoie, Steve Schlesinger, Paul Kirch, Willie Martin Fee Sepahi, Magda Cooling, Steve Gentile, Amy Shields, Michael Halberstam, Jeffrey Lorber and so many other people.

If . . .

• You have a comment
   
• You have a potential blog topic
   
• See a funny picture
   
• You disagree with me
   
• If you agree with me

I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! That is the only way we can learn from each other and have this blog be very dynamic.

Thanks for a great 3 years and I look forward to many, many more.

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