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Reality Please

A lot can go wrong when we measure ourselves against bogus standards, standards that cannot be met because they are not real.

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DNA Evidence Foolproof? NOT!

One of my pet peeves is our willingness to accept information offered up as solid fact without giving it a good smell

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PopCap: Perverse Incentives and Humans: Know Thy Adversary

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “Those of us who looked to the self-interest of the lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity, myself

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To whom much is given, much is required

To whom much is given, much is required. Every now and then my attitude of gratitude strongly kicks in and I begin

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(2 of 3) Stephen R. Covey on Empowerment

Empowerment is the process of sharing knowledge, authority, and responsibility further down the organization than previously thought possible. The goal is to

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Rational Assessments of Risk

We humans are a funny lot. We voluntarily take on significant risk when we “think” we are in control and frequently shun

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The Inevitability of Adversity…and the Benefits Thereof

I work in multifamily real estate, university housing to be exact. Real estate, along with our entire economy, has fallen on pretty

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PopCap: A Free Enterprise Solution to Immigration

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) In spite of our recent problems with Wall Street run amok, most of us still believe in

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Finding the Line: Small Improvements, Big Cumulative Impacts

Howard Schultz is the founder and CEO of Starbucks and evidently he likes to tell this story about milk: Starbucks uses a

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(1 of 3) Empowerment Revisited

In business, empowerment is “a broad delegation of authority and commensurate responsibility to positions and persons that traditionally have not enjoyed such

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“A Rose By Any Other Name…”

Which phrase resonates more with you? Capitalism? Or free enterprise? Protectionism? Or isolationism? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (a private organization) is

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GM’s Volt 230 mpg? NOT

Sorry, I couldn’t let this one pass! General Motors recently claimed, with the convenient connivance of the EPA, that its new plug-in