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Marriot: Your customer service is only as good as your vendors

There is a Marriott in Miami Beach where I occasionally eat breakfast because it is close, opens early, and the food is

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“It is only the memory of poverty…”

“It is only the memory of poverty that creates the social discipline necessary for prosperity. Once that is forgotten, the seeds of

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The Pitfalls of Unbounded, Undisciplined Compassion

Often as a nation and as a community, we are unwilling to face the need to eat our spinach, to make REAL

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I Don’t Want To Hear About It

Think you have problems? Life has dealt you a bad hand? Can’t be done? It just isn’t fair? I don’t want to

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PopCap: Massive Stimulus = Massive Fraud

(A Populist Capitalist Blog) As the federal government prepares to flood the American economy with its multi-trillion dollar stimulus package, there are

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The Rashomon Effect

“Rashomon” is a classic 1950s black and white Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa. The movie depicts the (possible? probable?) rape of a

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$10.7 Million

$10.7 million is what Mayor Gavin Newsom calculates the city of San Francisco spends annually to clean up discarded cigarette butts from

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“Endlessly Curious”

It is easy to say that life is a matter of how you look at it, that things turn out best for

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PopCap: “Tax What You Burn, Not What You Earn”

(A Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Al Gore said it and I’m supporting it: “Tax what you burn, not what you earn.”

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“Large Scale Waiting”

I’m reading Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” (sorry it took me so long to get to it, Oprah!) and learning how

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“Just Three Things”

How much data can people realistically absorb? Particularly in a meeting or in a short time? There is a reason phone numbers

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“The Joys of Frugality”

There it was, right on the cover of Parade magazine in my Sunday hometown newspaper. An article titled, “The Joys of Frugality.”