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PopCap: Hidden Persuaders

(A Populist Capitalist Blog) Call me old fashioned, but I like to know when I’m being sold, when I’m being manipulated. I

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Sometimes All Is Not As It Seems

Fortune magazine cover: “The 100 Best Companies To Work For” One assumes that the list splashed across the cover was complied by

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Triple Win: Beating Obesity, Traffic, AND Global Warming?

What if I presented a plan to you that could fight obesity, increase physical fitness, reduce traffic congestion, AND combat global warming?

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We Create Our Own Traps

I’m fat because I eat. I eat because I’m alone. I’m alone because I’m fat. (Image from www.PostSecrets.com) It is easy to

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Stop the presses: Zoning is the answer to childhood obesity! “Ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet

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PopCap: 5% Truth, 95% BS

(A Populist Capitalist Blog) We can always find ways to justify the junket we want to take, the perk of which we

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True Colors

“An entrepreneur shows his true colors in a period of crisis, not in a period when everybody is having success.” — Giorgio

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Starting With Why: Sharing Intent vs. Instruction

“When you explain to people what you are trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can

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Beware the “All Hat, No Cattle” Leader

As Wall Street and finance bigwigs continue to insist that they deserve over-the-top compensation in spite of all evidence to the contrary

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Privacy is an Illusion

A Canadian filmmaker who is blind in one eye announced plans to have a mini-camera installed in his prosthetic eye in order

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Learning to Love It

A lot of the “secret” of success in life is learning to love what we need to be good at so we

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Sources of Lasting Satisfaction

When I was growing up in Gainesville in the 1960s, my father taught civil engineering at the University of Florida. The department