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Self Trust
I’ve been listening in the car to a CD of Stephen M. R. Covey’s book, “The Speed of Trust.” Its essence is that things work…
June 16, 2009
Idling Away Our Future
Section 4-08, Subsection P of the New York City traffic code prohibits engine idling for more than three minutes. Engine idling, obviously, significantly pollutes our…
June 15, 2009
Four Defenses
Atlantic magazine’s June 2009 cover story, “What Makes Us Happy?”, was about a compelling longitudinal study of 268 male Harvard students. Starting in the late…
June 9, 2009
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 decent. There is…
June 4, 2009
“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 decay begin to…
June 3, 2009
“Endlessly Curious”
It is easy to say that life is a matter of how you look at it, that things turn out best for those who make…
May 26, 2009
“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 to be more…
May 21, 2009
The Most Important Variable
How long would you wait for a treat? Researchers put four-year-old children, one at a time, in a small room with a treat (a toy,…
May 18, 2009
PopCap: Global Shame
(A Populist Capitalist Blog) The Marlboro Man is “pushing hard to boost global sales before U.S.-style tobacco restrictions spread… ramping up sales in overseas markets…
May 1, 2009
PopCap: Prosperity: The Solution to Global Warming?
(A populist capitalist blog) Intuitively, many people feel that for the environment, simpler is better. And from there it is a relatively short leap to…
April 24, 2009
Beware the Middleman: ~ $800 Million For Doing Nada
I’ve never been fond of “middlemen.” I prefer as direct and efficient a chain of connection and distribution as possible. Each point, person, or entity…
April 15, 2009