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“One Love”
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“One Love”

By Bob Marley & The Wailers

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Rastafarian thing always threw me off (religion in which Hailee Salasee was considered the Almighty) but I’ve enjoyed a number of Marley’s pieces, particularly this and Redemption...
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November Quote of the Month: Jessye Norman

By November Jessye Norman

October 15, 2019

“One has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself”  -Jessye Norman
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November Article of Interest:

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

(Link To Article) Editor’s note:   I’ve struggled all my life, as perhaps most of us have, with my faith.   I rarely doubt the existence of God be she...
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November Article: Income Inequality May Take Toll on Growth

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Our foundation studiously avoids advocacy but if we ever change that policy, here’s the first windmill I will tilt. Forbes 50 wealthiest people for example had net worth...
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Newsletter: Will We Learn?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Risk and reward is the basis of all successful financial systems so the US government must not intervene in such a way as to put that system out of balance. ...
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Newsletter: Who Should Change First?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Great organizations and great lives are built by great people – people who are willing to grown and change.  Those who treat their employees how they wish to be treated...
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Newsletter: T’was Ever Thus

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Little good comes from panic, though through the hardest of times we are challenged to remain patient.  One way to do this is to remember that the more things change,...
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Newsletter – “The Most Difficult Person I’ve Ever Managed” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Several times a year, my son, Tim, and friend, Brian Bowers, and I speak to business management classes at Ohio State. Among the topics most discussed is managing people. Brian...
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Newsletter – “The Message is the Medium” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant professor who coined the phrase “the medium is the message”.   Stated briefly, he believed that television, movies and advertising vehicles held a message just...
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Newsletter: Our Enemy is Despair

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Despair ruins more lives and organizations than obstacles do.  Obstacles, however difficult, can be overcome as has been shown by many heroes over time.  Despair cannot be overcome as it...
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Newsletter: Next, I Fight a Bull!

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Though never documented, it is legend that Ernest Hemingway said; to be a man, one must plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book and father a son. As...
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Newsletter: Looking Before Leaping

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Great organizations depend on great research and all ideas can and should be tested before  being rolled out into the market. [more] My first learning about research was probably from...
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Newsletter: It’s Harder to be Unhappy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Once we see the truth as it is, we can still view things optimistically and our plans gain more traction by doing so. [more] How do I know? I’ve worked...
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Newsletter: I Am From

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

A poor teenager from a bad neighborhood overcomes her obstacles and heads for Brown University – leaving a wonderful poem to contemplate as she does. [more] Editor's Note: Anything below...
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Newsletter: Horrible Holiday?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Peace to you this season. [more] It's December 16, 2008, and today is another bad news day for me. The news I'm getting is probably similar to yours. The report...
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Newsletter – “God’s Not Done With Us Yet” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

As I look back I am grateful for so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about gratitude I still have for people who believed in me. In fact, I have a...
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Newsletter: Enough

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The free enterprise system, like its consumers, seems now too focused on financial products and not focused enough on “making and trading”.  We are in danger of becoming insatiable gamblers. ...
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Newsletter: “Dear Reader” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Your responses to my request in last month’s blog for input on my book are astounding. First of all, there were a lot of them, over 100 to be exact....
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Newsletter: “Counter Intuitive Truths” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

In pondering what lessons I’ve learned in 2013, it became clear to me –once again– that solutions to complex problems are frequently simple. Although I have discovered this many times...
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Newsletter: Another Trip of a Lifetime

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Seeing poverty first-hand changes one’s point of view. [more] Editor's Note: I was pleasantly surprised by the response to my writing about our trip to Kenya last month. So, I...
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Newsletter – An Excerpt of the Book “Empty Abundance – (Sure, You Can Have a Bike)”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The most enduring gift Mom and Dad gave all ten of us was their abiding faith that hard work and education create independence. When I was nine, I asked Dad...
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