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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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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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(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. Every now and then my attitude of gratitude strongly kicks in and I begin
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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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Sorry, I couldn’t let this one pass! General Motors recently claimed, with the convenient connivance of the EPA, that its new plug-in