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Continue reading →: Simple: The national debt DOES matter; make legislators responsible
2018 interest expense on US national debt $174,800,239,416.18 $175B in interest alone…American economic and political hubris is a dangerous thing. If the American (nay, the global economy given how inter- and co-dependent we all are) economy never falters and continues on its way up then, I’ll concede, our national debt…
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Continue reading →: Alternatives to morning radio
I commute to northern Virginia (NoVA) a couple of times per week. I make this longer-than-ideal commute to preserve a small-town experience for my family AND a morning waterskiing habit for myself during the summer 🙂 Few things make me more productive and happy that sitting down to work at…
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Continue reading →: Turning employees into stark raving fans
A simple idea with difficult implementation. Making your employees stark-raving fans. The issue? Leadership shortcomings. The value of turning employees into fans can’t be better expressed than in this blog post from Tony Robbins: ARE YOU TREATING YOUR EMPLOYEES LIKE RAVING FANS? – You might be surprised by the results “Your…
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Continue reading →: Hiring smart people
This… “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” – Steve Jobs
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Continue reading →: Some people were raised by wolves | Why we can’t have nice things
Yesterday was a sad day. LLBean, the iconic Freeport Maine-based clothing company, had to amend its famous return policy: WHO DOES THIS? Who thinks it is appropriate to go to a yard sale, buy a pair of used slippers and return them to LLBean?! IF your family is hungry/homeless I…
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Continue reading →: The importance of integrity
Most of what we do in life and business is done without legal or contractual cover. In this wild majority of situations you are trading with your integrity. Your integrity and the effect it has on your overall reputation is incalculable. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without…
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Continue reading →: Autonomous Vehicles == Low Value
In “The race for autonomous vehicles is over. Silicon Valley lost.” John McElroy (Twitter: @Autoline) makes some excellent points. Here are my cliff notes: Some companies are based on 10% margins Some companies are based on 40% margins Manufacturing at scale is HARD and requires years of DNA development Innovation…
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Continue reading →: Security and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Short post today… More of a link than a post. This Economist story from July 18, 2015, entitled, “Their own devices” is an excellent read for the non-technical person on the security implications of everything becoming a computer. Here is the real issue says Graham Steel, the CEO of Cryptosense (Cryptosense twitter): Part of the problem,…
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Continue reading →: Hollywood: Please represent the military accurately
The Page house caught a bug this past Christmas (2015). As a result, we didn’t get out of the house very much; instead we ended up getting extra value from our Netflix and iTunes Movies accounts. One of the (many) movies we watched was Max (2015: IMDB). From the IMDB entry…
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