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Debt: Friend or Foe?

Debt: Friend or Foe? In some respects this is a silly question. I might as well ask “Food: Friend or Foe?” In

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Four Ways to Spend Money

There are four ways you can spend money: 1) “You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, you

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“Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress”

“Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress,” is a collection of essays edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington. Its

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“I intend to” vs “Immediate I have”: Empowerment and win-win performance agreements

Empowerment has been globally defined as “the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform

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A Plug For Contentment

I think of contentment as the stepsister of happiness. If happiness is the swan, contentment is the ugly duckling. Everyone is pursuing

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Selling Sizzling Steak: Performance and Promotion

Doing the job right is the “steak.” Looking good while you do it is the “sizzle.” There was a time in my

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Lying About Your Vegetables…

Most of us like to think we are good decision makers, that we have a firm grasp on reality, that we “know

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Take a Deep Breath. Stretch.

Breathing is one of the most under-noticed, under-rated body functions. Yet there is a lot of power in controlling your breathing. “Take

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In Memory of Courtland Alden Collier

Courtland Alden Collier passed away Thursday, July 17, 2008, just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Here is the text of Nathan’s

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Chicken Little Rides Again?

“Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them,” by John E. Mueller “False Alarm:

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“…not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because

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“Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

The thesis of “Nudge” is that it is possible to design choices to make it easy to do what is good for