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What if Every Major Religious Holiday Were a National Holiday?
There were a few articles (here, here, and here) in The Economist over the last few issues that got me thinking about religion. And not any one particular religion — all of them — and how they might be...
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Replacing the 40-hour Workweek with a 30- or 21-hour Workweek
This past summer, I posted a couple of articles from The Atlantic to Facebook. They both had to do with vacation — more specifically — the lack of vacation in the US when compared to other countries....
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How Does a 25-Hour Workweek Sound to You?
Vocation is a very important part of our lives in today’s society. Vocation, usually, gives our lives a sense of purpose. At times, however, our vocation can get in the way of our lives. How? Overwork....
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I’d Love to Get Inside Marissa Mayer’s Head: The End of Telecommuting at Yahoo
By now, you’ve no doubt heard that Marissa Mayer is ending telecommuting at Yahoo. There’s been lots of opinion written about why what she’s doing is wrong and lots written about why what she’s doing...
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If You Want a Successful and Sustainable Company, Focus on the Workforce
Several months ago in one of those posts where I write about a bunch of ideas, but don’t flesh any of them out, I wrote the following: Focus on Labor — I’ve never been the CEO or a highly placed Vice...
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Labor is the Superior of Capital, and Deserves Much the Higher Consideration
Do you recognize those words? Scholars (and/or) American history buffs just might. They were spoken by one Abraham Lincoln on December 3rd, 1861, as part of his first State of the Union address. The...
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Do Public Sector Employees Volunteer More Than Private Sector Employees?
I have a confession to make right off the bat — I wrote the headline for this post specifically to counter Betteridge’s law of headlines. If you’re familiar with it, then you’ve already realized that...
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