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1: The Five Million Dollar Day

( Category: Inspirational Motivational | Word Count: 890 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Life's changes shift our priorities. In this true account, a man gets a $5,000,000 paycheck on the same day he learns he has terminal cancer.

2: Personal Balance and Superior Productivity

( Category: Stress Management | Word Count: 861 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Those that produce and create the most tend to have lives that are balanced and not too far out of 'whack'. By determining what your own personal balance is, you can improve your workplace productivity.

3: Three Good and True Rat Stories

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 755 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
We can never have too many good rat stories. By nature, rats elicit a human response that is both unpredictable and at times entertaining.

4: The Exit Interview: Don't Let That Valuable Information Walk Out Your Door!

( Category: Employee Relations | Word Count: 472 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Departing employees through an exit interview provide an excellent way to find out more about your company but it requires discipline and focus. This article discusses exit interview basics.

5: Customer and Client Rapport: Why Should They Care About You?

( Category: Customer Service | Word Count: 775 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Customers drive all the action. If your business can develop a relationship it can develop customer loyalty.

6: When Should You Not Rehire A Skilled Employee?

( Category: Human Resources | Word Count: 810 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Rehiring a skilled employee can be a nightmare if you do not carefully consider all the benefits and problems. This article covers some of the do's and don'ts of rehiring skilled employees.

7: How to Cook Maya Tepeizcuinte (Paca Jungle Rat)

( Category: Nature | Word Count: 1581 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
This is a true account of my Maya neighbor 'Jungle Man' catching a 25 pound tepeizcuinte (tepe), preparing and cooking it.

8: When Those We Trust Disappoint Us

( Category: Coaching | Word Count: 749 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )
Usually trust is a two way street, but not always. Sometimes folks get so caught up in their own problems and greed that they behave badly. What should you do?

9: When in Doubt, Side with Skill

( Category: Employee Relations | Word Count: 632 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Nothing can replace skill when it comes to workplace productivity. The care and feeding of skilled employees can give your company a huge competitive advantage.

10: The Business Analysis: Why Your Company's Future May Depend on It

( Category: Business | Word Count: 708 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
A good business analysis can give a company a competitive edge by creating a blueprint for improvements.

11: Sensory Reduction and the Quest for Human Potential

( Category: Stress Management | Word Count: 965 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )
Our poor heads are bombarded constantly with all sorts of outside stimuli. By cutting out this stimuli in a saltwater flotation tank some theorize we are returning to our natural caveman selves.

12: Did Bad Management Cause the Murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair?

( Category: Management | Word Count: 720 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
If you treat your employees badly, watch out. Mad Madalyn Murray O'Hair pushed one employee a bit over the edge...

13: The Interviewer's Perception or Who Gets Hired?

( Category: Business | Word Count: 865 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
If you give the interviewer a bad impression,you may as well get up and walk out of the interview.

14: Infrastructure and Economic Development

( Category: Business | Word Count: 987 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )
The relationship between infrastructure and economic development is not always obvious. This article examines the close relationship between the two and how infrastructure becomes the framework for economic development.

15: Two Deaths on the Same Afternoon

( Category: Death and Dying | Word Count: 1131 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )
Death waits for no one. Here we see contrasted the life and death of two very different people.

16: Howdy Doody and Charlie McCarthy: 20th Century Cultural Icons

( Category: Culture and Society | Word Count: 828 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Many of us boomers remember Howdy Doody and Charlie McCarthy, puppets from our childhood. Yet even though they were just puppets, they created a culture that even after many years we can still identify with.

17: Yes, Virginia, the World is Full of Jerks...

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 903 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Jerks are everywhere and a diverse bunch at that. Why are jerks so irritating?

18: How to Turn a Third Party Informational Article into a Power Marketing Tool

( Category: Tools and Resources | Word Count: 855 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
Third party marketing informational articles present your company in a positive light. This under utilized multi-use tool is equally powerful in both print and digital media.

19: The Business Meeting Revisited: Waste of Time or Key Strategic Tool?

( Category: Business | Word Count: 859 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
The oft maligned business meeting is often ignored as a stategic management tool. Those that can do meetings well gain a competive advantage over that can't.

20: A World War I Soldier's Photo Album: Gas, Guts and Eternal Glory?

( Category: History | Word Count: 959 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
World War I was the last war fought in the trenches. It was also the war of poison gas and inthinkable carnage shown in Grandpa's soldier's photo album. What did we learn?

21: If We Can Think It, Do We Also Experience It?

( Category: Personal Development | Word Count: 1040 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Are we what we experience? The answer is 'probably so'...

22: Business Development and the Measured Steps to Success

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1084 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Successful companies go through the model, infrastructure, strategy and growth phases. Other companies don't.

23: How to Prevent Minimal Employees from Destroying Your Business

( Category: Human Resources | Word Count: 953 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
Minimal employees are one of the primary reasons businesses fail. Don't let minimal employees destroy your company.

24: Closing of Historic Skyview Flea Market and Drive-In a Big Loss for Santa Cruz, California

( Category: Culture and Society | Word Count: 957 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )
The price of progress is sometimes the destruction of a community. Everything has its price.

25: 2008 Election Proving Once Again the USA is the Greatest Nation in the Entire Universe

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 936 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Once again we prove our advanced democratic system is aces and helps us keep our status as the best nation in the Universe.

26: Welcome to California National Park!

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 944 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
When California runs out of water, we can make it into one heck of a national park. Don't forget to bring your water bottles...

27: How a 'Look and Feel' Redesign Can Upgrade Your Stale Corporate Image

( Category: Business | Word Count: 985 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Does your marketing collateral project your desired 'look and feel' It should because with online clicking you and your online competitors are put side by side. What you project, shows.

28: I'd Rather Be an Ugly Mexican than an Unhappy, Stupid, Silly Argentinean

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 1076 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Argentine reporter Jorge Lafauci was recorded during a TV show saying that Mexicans are the ugliest and the only pretty ones are on TV. Lafauci upholds a longstanding tradition of Argentines making silly, stupid statments.

29: Why Radio, TV, Newspaper and Other Traditional Advertising is so Very Yesterday

( Category: Business | Word Count: 953 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
The Return on Investment (ROI) for tradtional media marketing is going down. It is imperative that ownership and management take back control of their marketing initiatives.

30: Lessons in Life We Can Learn from Ugly Women with Big Tattoos

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 845 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
It's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes deflecting focus away from ugliness actually makes one relatively prettier.

31: U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo Proves Smoking Dope and Politics Bad Mix

( Category: Conservative | Word Count: 920 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )
If a U.S. Congressman can actually state that all of Mexico is a drug cartel, then why shouldn't I be able to return the favor by making up stories about him doing drugs?

32: Latino Politicians, Intellectuals and Community Leaders Abandoning California Farmworker Children

( Category: K-12 | Word Count: 1029 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Latino politicos, intellectuals and community leaders sit idley while Spanish speaking immigrant and citizen children to grow up not speaking English. As a result these children drop out of school and cannot participate in the educational and ecomonomic opportunities California has to offer. And not realize their individual potential...

33: Intelligent Design and Natural Intelligence Are Two Peas in the Same Old Pod

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 986 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
If it can't be tested and exists only on faith it is not science. Why not say 'it's not science' and move on?

34: There is no Security with Shaking Ground, Mad Shoplifters and Thieving Families

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 936 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )
We can never totally isolate ourselves from evil,risk, threat and bad things in general. Rather than worry about it we should get out and about and enjoy life and not be obsessed with creating a no risk environment. Besides, there is no such animal.

35: Why the SF Forty Niners Miss Eddie Debartolo's Freewheelin' and Dealin'

( Category: Football | Word Count: 994 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )
For some of us, football is religion. When our team flops, we cry. But when our team is mismanaged, we take it personally.

36: Why Those Don Quixote Start-Ups are Great for Your Career, Creativity and Sanity

( Category: Start Up | Word Count: 1064 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
There is no better hands on business school than a start up. And for thrills they can't be beat. Why not do yourself a favor and try one?

37: Populist Deception Fooling Latin America's Poor and USA's Gullible 'Intellectuals'

( Category: World Affairs | Word Count: 1103 | Views: 5 | Rating: -1 )
Latin America needs a solid left, not Populist windbags that promise the impossible. Populism has failed everywhere and there's no reason to expect any change.

38: UCSC Treesitting Protesters Barking Up Some Really, Really Big Redwood Trees

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 1032 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
If your son or daughter were protesting 150 up on redwood tree limb should you demand they transfer to Texas A&M?

39: Boycott Chinese and Buy Mexican

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 874 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Better to buy from friends and neighbors than from those that poison us and even their own.

40: Why Mavericks Surfer Darryl 'Flea' Virostko is the World's Best Athlete

( Category: Sports | Word Count: 918 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Darryl 'Flea' Virostko surfs the Mavericks and the biggest waves in the world.

41: Marilyn Monroe's Mysterious Moving Mole

( Category: Beauty | Word Count: 888 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
We can never get enough of movie actress Marilyn Monroe , or so it seems. Did you even know Marilyn had a famous mole?

42: Say it Ain't So, Barry, but Deep Down We All Knew This Day Would Come...

( Category: Baseball | Word Count: 936 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )
Our hero Barry Bonds has been indicted for perjury concerning his denial at having taken performance enhancing steroids. All his fans can hope for is a quick resolution and back to playing baseball.

43: Yes Virginia, There is an Allegorical, Metaphorical, and Culturally Neutered Santa Claus

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 1047 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )
Santa has adapted well to the 21st Century. Those that don't believe he exists don't even wish he did. How sad.

44: Why Google and Yahoo Foot Prints are Eliminating Everything but Your Business Card

( Category: Sales | Word Count: 993 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
What would happen if you threw out all your sales and marketing materials except for your business card? The answer might be worthy of some consideration.

45: How Your Collective Thinking is Destroying Your Mind, Career, Personal Life and Hippocampus

( Category: Humor | Word Count: 1003 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Those that think like sheep become sheep.

46: The Greed Gene: How Excessive Greed Can Bleed Your Business and Ruin Your Life

( Category: Growth Topics | Word Count: 1056 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )
Buddhists believe greed is the primary obstacle to enlightenment. Greed can also be an obstacle to business success.

47: Streets and People Sense: What It Takes to Cross the Street and Get Along with Others

( Category: Psychology | Word Count: 1120 | Views: 7 | Rating: -1 )
Something as simple as crossing the street safely requires a vast array of neural processes. Sometimes we only realize that when we see those struggle that don't have that ability.

48: The Demos Year End 2008 Campaign Review: Obama Up, Clintons Tank, and John Out

( Category: Politics | Word Count: 958 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )
Aren't we Democrats such a class act?

49: Real Life Adventure is Not Limited to Exotic Places

( Category: Personal Development | Word Count: 869 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )
Helen Keller said "Life is an adventure or it is nothing." Why would you settle for nothing?

50: Can Nations, States, Regions and Communities Develop Their Own Personality?

( Category: Psychology | Word Count: 947 | Views: 8 | Rating: -1 )
We are from whence we come.



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