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Here is the Executive Summary of a “must read” article written by Richard Rothstein for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy…
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Though John Jay was one of three contributors to the Federalist Papers, president of the wartime Continental Congress and the nation’s first chief justice, some say he’s the forgotten founder. That is one of the key points in an article…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dacher Keltner and Paul Ekman for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: Gérard DuBois * *…
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In Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland shares his thoughts about how to eliminate waste or at least reduce it substantially in the workplace. I agree with him that waste is at…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Allen C. Guelzo that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Tamara Shopsin * *…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Danny Heitman that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * With household decluttering now…
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In Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, Matthew D Lieberman observes, “Just as there are multiple social networks on the Internet such as Facebook and Twitter, each with its own strengths, there are also multiple social networks in…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…
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I recently re-read Dan Kahneman‘s Thinking, Fast and Slow, and was amazed by how much that I noted in his narrative, this time, that I had either missed or misunderstood during previous readings. In Chapter 19, “The Illusion of Understanding,…
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Theodore Roosevelt on the power of engagement
On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt delivered to an audience at the Sorbonne in Paris what is widely considered his most important speech, “Citizenship in a Republic.” Here is a brief excerpt: “It is not the critic who counts; not…
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