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Somewhere over the Rainbow
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Somewhere over the Rainbow

By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

October 15, 2019

Note: This medley version of Judy Garland and Louis Armstrong's most famous hits are done by a Hawaiian artist who died very young in 1997. The artist became famous by...
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Everybody's Had the Blues
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Everybody's Had the Blues

By B.B. King, Joe Louis Walker

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Blues became interesting to me when friend John Zingg turned me onto BB King in college thirty-some years ago. This song is written by one of...
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Liberte Frites
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Liberte Frites

By Kevin McCarthy, A Beautiful Loser

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: My own son reminds me in this song about the elusiveness of freedom. Kevin's been writing and performing for half his life, like most singer/songwriters with...
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Cannonball
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Cannonball

By Damien Rice

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Brilliant melody and a nice soft guitar. Rice's voice is a haunting and peaceful to me. The song asks us to learn from humility, particularly in...
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Balancing the World
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Balancing the World

By Eliot Morris

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This song was given to me by my daughter, Caitlin, who represents the point of the song – balance. The music and rhythm also bring me upbeat, just...
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May Newsletter: “Lessons Lived”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: These short stories wind up a 12-part series exploring the lessons I’ve learned in building a foundation. I realized in writing these twelve articles that I’m not embarrassed...
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Churchill by Himself
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Churchill by Himself

By Richard Langworth

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: I’ve often wondered how Winston Churchill could be so often quoted, and now I know. He wrote over 15,000,000 million published words – books, speeches, articles, letters and...
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May Article: “Long-Term Bull and Bear Markets” by Alex Shahidi

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The following article, written by Alex Shahidi and passed on to me by my partner, Jake Crocker, is an interesting take on long-term secular trends in the U.S....
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Me and Bobby McGee
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Me and Bobby McGee

By Kris Kristofferson

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This is just a great throw-back song for me. A lot of memories come to me from this hitchhiker’s ballad of missing their mate, some of the best...
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March Newsletter: Good Passion/Bad Passion

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: This is the 10th in a series of 12 articles about the mistakes we’ve made building our foundation since 1997. I’ve decided the last two articles will be...
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March Case Study: The Great Little Box Company, Vancouver, BC

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The company referenced in the article below “Investing in the Bottom of the Ladder,” by Jody Heymann, demonstrates that for-profit companies can do better by paying and treating...
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Boomerang
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Boomerang

By Michael Lewis

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This irreverent “journey through the new Third World” by Lewis is at once vastly entertaining and concerning. Within the past year or so, he visits Iceland, Ireland, Greece,...
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March Article of Interest: Bloomberg November 1-7, 2010 Charlie Rose with guests Jacob Hacker, Arianna Huffington, Steven Pearlstein and Kenneth Rogoff.

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Somehow this article from 16 months ago got lost in my clippings file and yet is still worth publishing. It’s a brief Charlie Rose interview with two academics...
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“List Power” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The most underutilized asset of ANY organization is their database. Usually when I say this, my audience looks at me like, “I thought your introduction said you were a Madison...
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June Quote:

October 15, 2019

"You've got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." Alvin Toffler
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Poke the Box
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Poke the Box

By Seth Godin

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Seth’s first popular book, “Permission Marketing” was a guide for me as we ramped WorkPlace Media into a national permission database media. I’ve since enjoyed “Purple Cow” particularly...
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Here Comes the Sun
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Here Comes the Sun

By The Beatles

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: An oldie for this month since I’ve had some grey clouds the last few months. Then we spent last week celebrating my son Kevin’s love for his new...
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January Quote: Sun Tzu

October 15, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu
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January Newsletter: You Can’t Change What You Can’t Measure

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: This is the 7th in a series of 12 articles I’m writing on mistakes and learning in building our foundation since 1997. Last month, I wrote about the...
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January Blog “Social Service that Creates Economic Value” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The Business of Good serves those who serve the poor. Over the years, we’ve focused on creating permanent change in lives of the poor rather than safety net social service....
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Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music by David Samuels
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Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music by David Samuels

By Tim McCarthy

August 20, 2019

Editor’s notes:  I am both lover and hater of Neil Young during my 50-some years of listening to his music and his thoughts.  But this article is one of the...
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