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July 21, 2010

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The Shunning of Someone Right

June 10, 2009

I’ve blogged about this in the past here, but I saw this last night and it is a reminder that it often takes courage to stand up and tell people something they don’t want to hear, but need to hear. Peter Schiff has been trying to fix the economy for years, only to get the [...]

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Baby Boomer Bottleneck

March 25, 2009

I ran into this transcript of a radio editorial by Dan Drezner about boomers and retirement on PublicRadio.org. He whines about Baby Boomers, then in the comment section, Boomers whine about Xers, who then whine about Baby Boomers. Ah… the internet. The reason I even bother to bring it to your attention is that his [...]

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Narcissists or Necessary?

March 23, 2009

Several articles lately are backing my claim that kids are becoming spoiled, evil, narcissistic brats. Even CNN’s Jack Cafferty has included a section in his new book, Now or Never: Some parents still have this attitude that their kids are too special to be burdened by discipline. And the rest of us are supposed to [...]

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Squeaky Wheels

March 5, 2009

I constantly hear people say that “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”. They complain and complain, often getting what they want. So they use this as justification to complain all the time. Occasionally, the squeaky wheel gets replaced. It’s a ratio of talent to tolerance. Are you talented enough to be tolerated? If you’re not [...]

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Negative Thinking Seeping into the Mainstream (Which is a Good Thing!)

September 25, 2008

The New York Times writer Barbara Ehrenreich has finally caught on to my philosophy that negative thinking (labeled here as “realism”) would have avoided the financial mess we’re in. I, obviously, agree. From New York Times: The Power of Negative Thinking By Barbara Ehrenreich Nice title by the way. J GREED — and its crafty [...]

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Who’s the boss? And are they any good?

April 3, 2008

I’ve had a lot of bosses and I’ve been the boss on occasion. It’s not easy if you are or have a bad boss. But how do you know? I mean, c’mon, as a manager, who hasn’t been burned in effigy? Is that really a good barometer? And just because employees say “I hate you, [...]

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