Followership Training
2013-05-31 – A hot topic in the adult-ed biz these days is leadership. No one is a follower. Everyone is a leader and they need to know how to do […]
Tag Archives: Business
Home Values
2013-05-29 – I saw a story yesterday about how home values are now up. First they were up. Then they were down. Now they are up again. In all that […]
Sacred Economics
2013-05-20 – I just read a book called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein. It was recommended to me by my friend […]
Trophies for Just Showing Up
2013-05-15 – You see it everywhere: people decrying a culture that gives trophies for just showing up. It’s socialist, they say, not to demand excellence, to reward behavior that anyone […]
Instant Satisfaction Industrial Complex
2013-05-06 – WTF? Did you read about the high school soccer goalie that punched a referee who gave him a yellow card? The ref died. And the goalie’s life, […]
Fungible Cubs
2013-05-01 – So the Cubs want to leave Chicago if they don’t get their demands met. Bye! Baseball teams are fungible. If the Cubs go, after a few years they […]
Cracked Ice
2013-01-28 – Today I’m in La Crosse, WI on business. Long day. Still working even in the hotel. I look out the window at the Mississippi River. It is largely […]
Capitol Gains
2012-11-09 – Romney’s tax plan could be a way to avoid the fiscal cliff. Are you surprised I would say that? Well, I don’t mean it in the way he […]
They’re Called Shares!
2012-09-12 – Ayn Rand! It’s time to roll over in your grave. I’m about to give away the dirty little secret of corporate capitalism. It’s all about sharing. I’m not […]
Derivatives in Sardines
2012-08-26 – My law school securities law professor told a story about an investor who had received a tip about a certain brand of sardines. “Why are these sardines […]
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