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Do you know why managers yell and demand results? Besides the fact that they are huge a-holes? Most likely it’s[…]

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When my kids were young, Beanie Babies were very popular.  They were basically glorified bean bags, decorated this way or[…]

This is something of a book report, or maybe a book recommendation.  The book, by the same name as this[…]