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McDonald’s tainted shake petition update . . . not an accident?
We would like to thank everyone who has signed and shared our petition. With 1,737 signatures, we are well on our way to hitting our target of 2,500! Beyond the extensive media coverage that has just...
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#McD_Poison Update: Why did you turn down the money?
In our media interviews I had repeatedly made the statement that our approach to dealing with McDonald’s continuing refusal to unconditionally release the results of the test that would finally tell us...
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Why are we so afraid of failure?
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” – Franklin D. Roosevelt I remember when I was about 8 or 9, my older brother told me that there was a monster in the main hall closet. He warned me that...
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The Ultimate Sting: Is it time to bail on LinkedIn?
I have two blogs for which I write on a regular basis – my first one, which I started in May 2007, currently has 22,098 followers, while the second, which was launched in May 2013 for the European...
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By “dumbing” down our schools curriculum are we actually hurting our children?
Are we dumbing down math and diluting the learning process by trying to make the curriculum fun? This year our daughter started to learn math using a methodology that is known as Tessellation. In...
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5 signs that you are a true “Idea” person
I often recall with great amusement the scene from the movie Night Shift when Michael Keaton’s character Bill Blazejowski announces to his befuddled co-worker played by Henry Winkler, that he was “an...
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Deliberate illiteracy and the Twitter effect?
Hagar the horrible was one of my favorite cartoon characters growing up. Of all the great strips that I read the one that has always stood out for me was when Hagar – an unapologetic barbarian –...
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A House Divided: Are Women Really Their Own Worst Enemy?
I just read an article by Erica Ehm, who was the very first V-Jay for Much Music – for my American readers Much Music is the Canadian version of MTV. In writing about her early years with the music...
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The million dollar napkin and other lessons from the dot com boom
We recently began sorting through the accumulated memories of a wide and varied collection of pictures, clothes and other such items upon which the ideal garage sale is built. In short, trying to...
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Pitching your idea or story, and the 20 second rule
In a post I wrote about the gamification of warehouse management, I had made reference to the 20 second rule in terms of the framework for my interview with an industry executive. Whenever I do an...
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