The first one tells how Newegg led by example by winning in court against a patent troll trying to steal their profits with bogus patent infringement claims. The second one has some excellent guidance from a Navy SEAL on using lessons from their world for effective business leadership.

I’m about to finish Alan Greenspan’s book, The Age of Turbulence. The pivotal moment in the book is about halfway through when he declares that he had decided to add economic growth to the Fed’s responsibilities. It was at that point that he jettisoned once and for all whatever tenuous threads that remained of his free-market […]

Here is a spirited defense of the much-maligned Koch brothers and Koch Industries by Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Fran Tarkenton. Tarkenton correctly points out the destructive, poisonous political source of the attacks on the Kochs.  Because the Kochs stand in the way of the left’s demolishing of America’s free enterprise system in favor of […]

I got into a stretch this summer of reading about African big game hunting from back in the days of the colonial safari.  One of the several books I read was President Theodore Roosevelt’s African Game Trails. For the longest time I’ve had a dislike of our 26th president, since I’d read amply about his role […]

File this one in the drawer for “excellent ideas — but much easier said than done (not that that’s any excuse).”

I just yesterday came across an article that represents sweet vindication.  I’ve long felt that we’re saddled with a generation of “leaders” who are horrendously entitled and overconfident, who have no track record of actual accomplishment or success, yet who expect ever greater power and reward.  Where it comes to the products of our elite […]

Here’s an article chronicling the failures of leadership by Barack Obama and Dan Akerson, GM’s CEO, in their “success” in turning the former automotive powerhouse around. http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/08/15/general-motors-is-headed-for-bankruptcy-again/ Their lesson is one that far too many “leaders” today need to learn:  being smug, all-knowing, ridiculously entitled, arrogant, condescending, and out of touch while consistently delivering nothing […]

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit had a good roundup last night of the accelerating trouble in China, here:  http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/148570/ I predicted China’s descent years ago, not because I’m particularly good at political or economic prognostication, but because it was very clear that the leaders of that country were willing to do everything BUT what it would take for the […]

I couldn’t help but be vexed and frustrated by the hullaballoo over a single message on a bag sold by Lululemon, a purveyor of yoga-oriented soft goods.  The message was “Who is John Galt?”  Some of you may recognize it from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. And the wails that one item has raised!  The New […]

My buddy Dan has an interesting take on the colossal failure of our elites in every walk of life.  He believes it comes down to the disconnect and value difference in credentials versus achievement.  He points to the products of our elite universities and corporations, along with our government, and their lengthy resumes of merely […]