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		<title>Done-in by popular wisdom</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/done-in-by-popular-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When just-in-time becomes just-too-late
I used to work in the corporate offices of a major fashion mailorder retailer. One of the most important things in that industry is to make sure that you manufacture enough product to meet demand, but not so much that you&#8217;ll have tons left to liquidate later. If you&#8217;re designing an item [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=55&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calder to Japan: Hurry up and Wait?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson in ineffective diplomacy
Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal article, &#8220;Rise of a New Era in Japan,&#8221; carries this most vexing and perplexing quote from well-regarded Asia scholar (and former special adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan) Kent Calder:
It is crucial to wait and see right now. I&#8217;d say at least until the upper-house elections [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=52&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer&#8217;s &#8220;Adam Smith&#8221; Idiocy at Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/steve-ballmers-adam-smith-idiocy-at-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, was quoted in the recent Wall Street Journal article, &#8220;Is Bing the Thing?&#8221; with this: &#8220;I think most of the world thinks it would be great to have more-dynamic competition in search.&#8221; 
Oh, really, Steve? Would you like to hear what I think? Well, I&#8217;m gonna tell you anyway. 
I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=44&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you voted yet? Our future is waiting.</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/have-you-voted-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm. It&#8217;s the night before the election. Actually, where I am, it&#8217;s already the wee hours of Tuesday September 4. There is so much at stake, the need to get out and vote seems so vital, and so obvious. But that&#8217;s because what I think is vitally and obviously needed is change. And change does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=40&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give, give generously, and do it now</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/give-give-generously-and-do-it-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to encourage everyone to give, give generously, give recurring gifts, and to start now. 
Many people have a portfolio of stocks, bonds and other investment vehicles. I find myself with a portfolio of charitable giving. I would really like to encourage you to develop a similar portfolio. Why? Because our &#8220;western civilization&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=33&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making jewelry from horse shit</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/three-reasons-to-be-very-wary-while-investing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agent metaphors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three things I&#8217;ve learned recently from articles I&#8217;ve read in various sources, including the Weekend FT, and the WSJ, and other online sources including the blog, Naked Capitalism:
1. The way a situation is described can have a definite and measurable impact on the outcome of that situation. In particular, &#8220;agent&#8221; metaphors where, for example, people are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=21&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Ameriprise Financial</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/an-open-letter-to-ameriprise-financial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent advertising nuggets that might have caught your eye, in as unlikely places as Dwell magazine&#8230; It motivated me to write the following letter to Ameriprise:
&#8220;So maybe you&#8217;re not quite at the point where you can take the family on a spontaneous weekend trip to Aspen.&#8221;

Or how about: 
&#8220;Quitting your job to do charity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=19&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Undone&#8221; undone by Altria</title>
		<link>http://bitsworld.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/undone-undone-by-altria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I&#8217;m going to admit from the get-go that I don&#8217;t have all my facts straight, but that doesn&#8217;t matter. And that my headline is deliberately attention-grabbing at the expense of accuracy, but that doesn&#8217;t even matter. What matters is that it&#8217;s the way it came into my head, and so it&#8217;s the way it&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitsworld.wordpress.com&blog=419173&post=16&subd=bitsworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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