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In early April, I posted a blog sharing some thoughts about the wave of Nationalism now gaining momentum throughout the world.  Since then, a hard-line extreme right party has won seats in the Cyprus parliament; Austria’s Freedom Party presidential candidate, although...

Corruption has been with us since the first Pelican swooped into the ocean to bag his first fish dinner about 30 million or more years ago.  In other words, since the beginning of time. You’ll find references to its evils in the Greek and Roman classics, the writings...

There’s a lot of chatter these days about what to do about our national debt that is quickly approaching $20 trillion, about the pros and cons of our international trade policies, and about our blossoming balance of trade deficit that grows larger with each passing...

More than a century ago, philosopher George Santayana reminded us that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” His words ring true today. As I’ve traveled the world for the past three decades, the growing rise of Nationalism on virtually every...

Roughly two years ago, I blogged about the Big 3 US Airlines’ (American, Delta and United) highly-publicized campaign directed at the Obama Administration to block Etihad Airways, Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways from expanding their US route network (May, 2014)....

Chances are if you’re like about half of American workers this year, you won’t use all the paid time off you’ve earned. But, you’ll be making a big mistake—a mistake that hurts you, your company and our national economy, according to a recent study by Oxford...