The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Smart-Talk Trap in the Era of Social Media (and What to Do About It) 26 May 2011 I just came across an excellent piece in the Harvard Business Review thanks to my colleague Larry Pixa. Published in 1999 by Stanford professors Pfeffer and Sutton, “The Smart-Talk Trap” (PDF) is even more pertinent in today’s new …
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Just got fired from Wells Fargo. RE: the following email So…here’s what I wrote. It’s missing a handy chart where it depicts the average Wells employee’s hourly salary vs. the CEO’s salary, but you get the gist. Full disclosure, I had been working here for a few months and this was to be my last …
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Please do consider sharing this one with everyone you know! Phi Beta Iota: Actionable part right here up front, strongly recommended to one and all. It’s time we put the various “complexes” out of business. If we can create a worldwide outcry in the next few days to support the bold calls of the Global …
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Admiral Mullen to Speak at Inaugural Event of the Wilson Center’s Lee Hamilton Lecture Series What: Special Event: Inaugural Lee Hamilton Lecture Who: Admiral Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff When: Wednesday, May 25, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Where: Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Flom Auditorium See Also: YouTube: Steele to …
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Sacrificial Crowds and Radical Power: A Meditation by Justin Rogers-Cooper, 19 May 2011 Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) In early January the BBC reported that Mohammad Bouazazi, a Tunisian college graduate who illegally sold fruits and vegetables in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set himself on fire by dousing his body with petrol …
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16 May 2011 BAHRAIN: How radical are Bahrain’s Shia? EGYPT: Could Egypt’s revolution become mirage in the desert? IRAN-BAHRAIN: Iranian ships carrying aid to Bahrain turned back in Persian Gulf IRAN-SYRIA: ‘Nakba’ clashes: Iran, Syria trying to turn Arab Spring fury into attacks on Israel? ISRAEL: The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel’s door LEBANON-SYRIA: …
Is ‘Arab Spring’ Coming To Kabul? Radio Free Europe, 13 May 2011 The recent emergence of the first, large-scale Facebook movement among Afghan university students calling for reform can’t help but raise the question — will the wave of antigovernment dissent in the Middle East reach Afghanistan? Since March, some 1,500 university students in Kabul, …
