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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

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PopCap: Unseen Choices: Defined Benefit vs. Defined Cost Health Care

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Many government programs are so-called “defined benefit”: “X” level of benefits will be provided regardless of the

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Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing

Wow! This is a mouthful of a title for a blog post: Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing. It is from the title

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To Serve The Greater Good

Greed is not good. Ambition, yes. Enlightened, civilized, balanced self-interest, yes. A burning desire to achieve, a deep yearning to be the

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Ryanair: No Service, No Apologies, No Problem! A Different Approach to Value

In general, I’m a BIG proponent of customer service, mainly because I think it is what people want, what they have a

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A Soft Answer

A diligent young American studied Zen philosophy in Japan. So as to hone and discipline his body as well as his mind,

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PopCap: “The right of the people to be secure…against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable

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Best Advice I Ever Received: Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, Retired Four-Star General

An ambitious new second lieutenant approached an old general at the bar of the officers’ club (one of the few opportunities to