My dissertation research involving planning and managing a network of related Participatory Action Research projects. For most of these I was doing theoretical, methodological and practitioner literature reviews and background readings to supplement the group actions. At the same time I was maintaining an individual learning journal to record my reflections on the research processes […]
Category: leadership
House divided and class warfare: end of what’s left of the republic?
the mkt cant wait to hear Obama say something. yeah. meanwhile the dems are loading up their muskets for some good old class warfare with the middle class, as if the workers and the middle class ought to be on opposite sides of social issues. that’s just a win for pundits and media, and politicians. […]
Increase in gold margins as a way to force money into the market to spur the “recovery”
raising the margins on gold is the government’s way of making it harer for people who can see what they are doing to the currency and the economy to profit. As a way of comparison, the chart below shows the effects on silver when the same tool was used.
What some might call pandering, others call…stewardship?
real political courage and leadership on display to expand the entitlement program even further in California. That’s real stewardship of the public trust and treasure right there
California: killing their economy 1 business at a time
Keep strangling the golden goose http://jan.ocregister.com/2011/06/07/o-c-manufacturer-to-close-move-to-texas/60071/ and in another attempt to reduce their tax revenue: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-tax-20110630,0,4344787.story Related articles Debt Deal as Salami Strategy (thinkmarkets.wordpress.com) Best-Selling Author Cancels California Affiliates (entrepreneurbootcamp.blogspot.com) Unclaimed Tax Credits â Its Impact on You and the Economy (turbotax.intuit.com) Tax revenues jumped 7.1% in 2010 (search.japantimes.co.jp) Amazon to shut down California affiliates […]
Reflections on Afghanistan from Michael Yon
In my judgment, Michael Yon is the most honest and fairminded voice coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan, public or private. I rely on his insights to form my opinions. Consider buying his 1st edition book; he is an award winning, independent photojournalist http://www.michaelyon-online.com/ the essay on “Gobar gas” is testimony to the power of […]
weekend report review June 18, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxKBpxlGtnE main themes: playing defense as the bearish trend is now officially strong sdn we are on the boundary of a Volatile Sideways market Related articles Sailors Cove Hosts RFL Weekend (metaversesailing.wordpress.com) Daily link digest for June 18, 2011 (eoghann.com) Weekend Top Five (11 June 2011) (inurbase.wordpress.com) Cannon’s Countdown: The 30 Hottest Tracks Of The […]
Economics by fiat
This is how the President thinks businesses work: that they hire on the hope that it will contribute to better national economic numbers which will generate them some business: President Obama urged businesses to “step up” and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would […]
Reflecting on the “Flavor of the Month” at the High Reliability interest group on LinkedIn
seems to me that FOTM get their sharp edges rubbed off in practice (or subjected to pressure-thru-use at the industrial level) until what remains, if anything is a gem or simply the speck of sand that became the pearl. Every Aesop’s fable or Canterbury tale or Lao Tzu aphorism is rendering of an essential truth of […]
PK Subban: hockey player
P. K. Subban is making u remember why we are all hockey fans. What a fantastic game by this rising young talent tonight; he is all hockey player right down to the end of game interview when he had the best game face and playoff attitude I can remember seeing in a long time. 2 […]