America! Where is your outrage? Because …
Atlas can't keep shrugging off this guy Trump Three things you might not know – and one you do Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, said his favorite book is Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged. That's troublesome. In Greek mythology, Zeus makes Atlas, a Titan, forever hold the heavens on his shoulders. Rand's title means he carries the Read more...
President Donald Trump will quit …
because the kid in him is overwhelmed, scared to death and cannot survive knowing he will be seen as a "loser" (Donald Trump photo courtesy New York Times) Four must read articles Here are a few quotes taken from from four articles written between March 2016 and May 16, 2017, which will tell you all you need to know Read more...
Thank you Bill O’Reilly – sort of, kind of …
at least you've reminded us of our Darwinian downside Three things you might not know Genetically, we humans are only 1.2% different than chimpanzees.[1] Research finds that male chimpanzees that wage a campaign of sustained aggression against females sire more offsprings than their less violent counterparts and suggests that such nasty behavior evolved because it gave the more powerful Read more...
Great leaders understand three things: Memes, genes and tribalism …
... which explains why we have so few great leaders Three things you might not know In order to understand why a tribe of homo sapiens, often called a company or the electorate, behaves the way it does and doesn't behave the way leadership expects, means leaders must have a multi-layered knowledge of how memes, genes and tribalism interrelate. Read more...
The foxes will never fix the hen house of democracy …
and the hens will never stop being a bunch of chickens Three things you might not know Why did the turkey cross the road? To prove he wasn't a chicken. But being a bunch of turkeys doesn't get us anywhere either, except over to the other side of the same road, which, as Plato established 2,400 years ago, is Read more...
The hypocrisy of democracy is the elephant in the room
and its demise is accelerating in the absence of integrity, principles, patriotic guts and genetic mutation Three things you might not know The Economist Intelligence Unit's "Democracy Index 2016," ranks the USA 21st among 165 independent states. Norway is #1. Canada is #6. The US dropped out of the top category of "full democracies" (19 countries) and joined 57 Read more...