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Don’t Be A Frog

You’ve heard the story of the frog that got boiled alive in a pot it could have escaped from, but failed to

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The Courage To Say No

Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, said “Leadership is the art of saying no. Saying yes is easy.” Given limited resources,

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The Dangers of Being Different

Two interesting observations about humans: 1. If you are a few steps in front of the crowd, you are a leader. If

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Healthy Aging

Can you name the seven major factors that create a healthy old age, both physically and psychologically? According to the Grant Study

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PopCap: An Inconvenient Truth…About Solar Power

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) It turns out that solar power is a water hog. Yep, solar power, the poster child of

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“…We never know what moment our lives will be judged on.”

Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the U.S. Airways pilot who successfully “landed” an Airbus in the Hudson River, has a memoir due out

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Don’t Believe Everything You Read… Part 3

Americans devour polls. We just love to know what everybody else is thinking. We give weight and credibility to poll results, especially

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“I Get So Mad When…” AKA Giving Away Your Personal Power

“I feel so ‘X’ when you do ‘Y’” or “I get so ‘X’ when ’Y’ happens.” We all make statements like this.

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Candor: How Little We Get, How Much We Need It

We recently transferred a Team Member to a less-demanding position because, while he/she had terrific talents in many areas, this TM needed

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PopCap: Health Care vs. Healthy Behavior: John F. Kennedy and the Presidential Fitness Award

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Some of the “easiest” savings in health care costs in America can come from Americans, as individuals

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Don’t Believe Everything You Read (Part 2)

It amazes me what people will believe. Stock market data going back 200 years? I remember shaking my head in 1994 when

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A Guarantee is Only as Good as the Guarantor

I often shake my head in dismay when I read financial “advice” columns. So many important details are glossed over. An October