Category Archives: Politics and Business

The American Dream: Letter to a friend

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Stan

Hi My Friend! Thank you for forwarding the article in the Wall Street Journal, “The American Dream is Alive and Well”, by Michael R. Strain.  In that article, he proposes that the “populist” concern about the demise of the “American … Continue reading →

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Visiting Berlin

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Stan

A few years ago I visited Berlin for a business meeting.  First time to the city. I grew up during the Cold War, which was always threatening to heat up.  We hunkered under our wooden school desks to prepare for … Continue reading →

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A fork in the economic road

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Stan

I work for WD-40 Company as head of human resources.  We have employees in 15 countries.  Every year we do a global compensation analysis to determine what our next fiscal year’s compensation budget is going to be.  We use the … Continue reading →

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The secret languages of business

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Stan

The old saying is that knowledge is power. And it is, of course. Sharing it is also power, but only for those people who know how to create value rather than just have the private knowledge of it. For those … Continue reading →

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