Archive for 'The Man' Category

What lies beneath

1 July 2009 by Christopher Suleske

Gary DeMar at the American Vision blog has a good primer piece on the Judeo-Christian foundation behind free-market economics (and one can argue the secular-humanist crumbly foundation beneath socialism). Salient nugget concerning Americans of today:
The average American has only vague notions of these ideas. While most Americans would agree that stealing is wrong, they [...]

What concerns me most

16 October 2006 by Christopher Suleske

My father-in-law and I recently had a conversation in which he asked me about what I was most concerned, as I considered the future for my newborn daughter. Somewhat surprisingly, terrorism was not he answer. It was rather, “the national debt”. Were it Americans who owed other Americans this debt, I would be concerned [...]

You say inflation, I say deflation… Let’s call the whole thing off!

4 August 2006 by Christopher Suleske

This would be hilarious if it weren’t true:
The Fed has stopped reporting increases in broad money supply, M3, and has redefined the word ‘inflation’ so as to exclude prices that are going up.
The above is from an e-mail I receive called The Daily Reckoning. If you want a view from the pessimistic side of [...]

Killing creativity

26 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

Carmine Coyote has a great post over at Slow Leadership regarding how most companies crush creativity:
Most organizations claim they value creative, innovative people; yet many operate in ways guaranteed to limit, block or destroy whatever creativity their people have. The culprit is the fashionable, hard-driving, “results are all that matters” style of leadership. Here’s how—and [...]

A friend’s conundrum

22 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

A friend has been going through a rough time in his career and balancing this with his desires for autonomy, creativity, and eventually, financial freedom. He shared with me today part of an e-mail to his wife. We pick up where he’s just communicated to her an idea he’s had for some time, [...]

To Serve is to Rule

12 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

Ben Stein has a good piece on what it takes to get ahead… in anything. Probably the most overlooked point is the simplest:
To Serve Is to Rule
This was suggested to me by my friend Barron Thomas. If your work on behalf of the costume department head is so good that your boss looks great [...]