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Can we please concentrate on what matters at work? And it's not clothes. My friend's company was just acquired. The new owners insist that the formerly jeans-and-T-shirt culture be replaced by khakis. People are up in arms, it's impacting morale, and I'm amazed. What...

Should business survival trump ethics? This is a copy of an email I sent to the author of a book on business ethics. What are your thoughts? Hello! You wrote that: "Sustainability is important! An organization that goes bust can't do much good for anyone" Ah! Thanks...

Realities about Human Nature. Neo-Cons, Take Notice! Oh, boy. The papers today are full of reports that there's a big terrorist strike planned for this summer. It's scary that I catch myself wondering if this isn't a tactic by the Bush administration to get people...

Electronic Voting Machines are a Bad Idea. Period. It seems that more and more elected officials across the country are realizing that we need paper trails to accompany our electronic voting machines. It's really too bad that they just don't get it. The problem, you...

Why do we care about Kerry's vietnam medals? This election boggles my mind. The two big items of the week: Kerry's medals and the ongoing investigation of 9/11. Let's take them one at a time. First, who cares whether or not Kerry threw his medals 31 years ago? I mean...

CEOs are still paid too much, period. Flame on! Am I the only person grossly offended by current executive pay? The Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis took home $20 million for the job he did last year. As consolation for the 12,500 people he'll be laying off...

Why do we keep a sex offender's registry? It's time to renew my driver's license, and the form that came in the mail had a big black banner proclaiming that all sex offenders must remember to register with the local police department. Am I the only person who wonders...

Why does voicemail think we're stupid? I've been having problems with my phone system and am looking for a voicemail systems that lets me receive voice and fax messages by email, web, or phone. I've been trying different services and marveling at how uniformly they...

What's with UPS "Brown" anyway? A friend of mine in high school spiked his hair and wanted to be known as "Spike." But that phase passed, and eventually the haircut became exactly that: a haircut. Now, we think of him as a person, not a hairstyle. When it comes to...

Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 "The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.... The leader of genius must have the ability to make...