HOW TO BECOME A TOTAL FAILURE

My full-time occupation is print broker. I serve my customers printing needs by shopping the best values, arranging for and assisting the proofing process, attending press checks, following up on deliveries, and if needed, interfacing with the mailing house. When I’m busy I barely have time to breathe. Lately I haven’t been so busy–in fact […]

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This morning I learned the results of Prudential Financial’s stockholder meeting. The stockholders did not accept the board’s recommendation to let the executives decide their own compensation without stockholder supervision. The Say on Pay resolution passed with 61.5% of the vote. Much of the praise belongs to Executive Wealth an organization that is working diligently […]

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Yellowstone National Park has been an environmental proving ground. Park rangers told us that the forestry pendulum initially swung wide toward micro-management of public lands and animals. Wolves were considered to be a menace and bounties were offered to eliminate them. Without the wolves the elk herds flourished. The elks ate all edible vegetation in sight until […]

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My little blog last time about Prudential Financial showed up in Google’s top four. That’s good news and that’s bad. The good news is that the corporate executive cancer of greed gets a better chance of being exposed, but the bad news is that not enough people are writing about it. If my teeny-tiny voice […]

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You’ve got to give him credit. President Obama isn’t just sitting behind his desk in the oval office luxuriating in his win. He’s out spreading his message. I heard his interview on Face the Nation yesterday (March 29, 2009). Bob Schieffer quoted Thomas Jefferson who said, “the presidency is a splendid misery.” Furthermore Schieffer said, […]

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If you’re an NFL fan then you’ve probably have heard about former Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick and that he is in prison for running an illegal dog fighting operation. (If you don’t know that story, you may want to do a quick Google search and to get some story background).
I was listening to a […]

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On this blog site we’ve been addressing the abuses of AIG. Democrat Paul Hodes of New Hampshire, got it right and created a war cry for the fight: “You know, as far as the American people are concerned, I think AIG now stands for arrogance, incompetence and greed.”
A few years ago I saw a news […]

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Bill blogged about Sean Penn a few days ago and his post reminded me of a “bleeped out” audio clip a morning radio show played that displays Christian Bale literally going psycho on a member of the filming crew working on the new Terminator movie. To read the article and listen to the clip (for […]

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I watched the Academy Awards on television last night, as did a billion or so others. I don’t know why I watched because I haven’t seen any of the best picture nominees and so I didn’t have any favorites to cheer.
It was a tradition in my wife’s family to tune in. My father-in-law, Cal, worked […]

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They used to call it reverse psychology, but the term seems to have gone out of favor. I haven’t heard it used in twenty-years or so. How To Become A Total Failure is all about reverse psychology. The intention of the book is to startle us into noticing our failure patterns, so we can take […]

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