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Someone Gave Frank Gaffney Too Many Stamps
Tracy Rizzo was alarmed. A number of days ago, an envelope, with a Chicago postmark and a hand-written address to her private investigations firm, came in the mail. The letter inside said, “The Al-Qaeda organization has planted 160 nuclear bombs … Continue reading
Tennis Playing Flying Robots
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On John Nash
His mind would accelerate like a run away freight train picking up ideas and concepts and dropping off others. I must admit I am far more fond of people that have uncontrollable passion than a disciplined, polished and calculated delivery. … Continue reading
Social Entrepreneurship’s Funding Problem
Social entrepreneurship is exciting. It’s the application of business discipline to a real world problem in order to create value that others can use to benefit yet others. (‘Development’ is the legacy version of this approach.) Unfortunately, the funding pipeline … Continue reading
A Tax For Nonprofits?
Been thinking quite a bit about the sustainability of the nonprofit sector. For example, effort called The Two Thirds Effect is a nonstarter. It is essentially a voluntary 60% tax on profit. This is a very limited group of companies … Continue reading