Month: September 2009

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Life Is How You Look At It, Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone: Your Choice

“One of the reasons I think I’ve placed a high value on life is that my father took his.” This is how

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“Set big goals and own the responsibility for meeting them”

Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach for America, the company that recruits for difficult teaching positions in urban and rural schools, was recently

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Capt. Sullenberger, Flight 1549, and Deliberate Calm

How do humans make good decisions under conditions of intense pressure? How did Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III manage to stay

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PopCap: The Stupid Pursuit of Hyper “Safety,” or What Happens When Chicken Little Is In Charge

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) While I always fasten my safety belt, I understand that life has risks and comes without guarantees.

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Criticism: Friend or Foe?

If we choose to regard anything less than praise as an attack, then we cease to hear anything useful a critic may

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Courageous Acceptance of Personal Responsibility

The willingness to accept responsibility for our actions, to have the moral courage, the steadfastness of character to step up and acknowledge

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Learning to Ring Pavlov’s* Bell Ourselves

Understanding How Social Cues Influence Our Behavior We are always picking up cues from our environment and responding to them, most of

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Beware the Cost of the Middleman!

Understanding Systems and How to Make them Better Maine lobsters have plunged in price from $10 a pound a few years ago

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PopCap: The High Price of Ego

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) The City of Portland’s port authority is scheduled to pay $3.5 million to Delta to persuade the

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Unseen Consequences, Forgotten Costs

In 2008, just under a half million American veterans, 442,695 to be exact, were treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (The New

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“Any fool can make a rule…”

Most rules are made with good intentions and are designed to solve a real problem. Unfortunately, the people making the rules often