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		<title>corporate karma</title>
		<link>http://bethesdafrog.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/corporate-karma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[we all know about karma, the law of moral causation whereby an action causes an entire cycle of cause and effect. in buddhism the effects of all actions are viewed as actively shaping one&#8217;s past present and future experiences.  in other words you reap what you sow.  this is by now well understood, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=837&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>currency auguries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the london g20 summit obviously got me thinking, first in terms of a new world order, see my previous post, and now in terms of what it would mean to world currencies.
we have now lived for roughly sixty years with the $ as our world currency, the us being the only global power.  a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=825&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>new world order? what with this ls depression, absolutely!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the g20 summit in london is immensely instructive in several ways.  from a governance point of view i am quite sure that we can say goodbye to the old imf and world bank dominated by the usa and europe.  other countries have been invited to the table and will have a say:  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=816&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in goldman we trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i have been more nervous, concerned, leery, even peeved, ok, plain steaming with every new financial bailout plan.  a couple of paulson plans, now a couple of geithner plans, and i still get the uneasy feeling that the banking/financial sector is becoming ever more important and powerful in this modern world of ours, without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=807&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>obama&#8217;s &#8220;super gun&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[behind every winning strategy lies a killer app, a competitive edge, a &#8220;super gun&#8221; so to speak.  it turns out that even elizabeth i&#8217;s navy had such a &#8220;super gun&#8221;, literally, when defeating the spanish armada, see here.  elizabeth i&#8217;s navy&#8217;s super guns did prompt me to think about what are obama&#8217;s super [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=800&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>politics and economics</title>
		<link>http://bethesdafrog.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/politics-and-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[when and where the worlds of politics and economics meet bewilderment often ensues.  take most developing countries.  when their banking system is in crisis, or their currency on the run, a trade imbalance, near bankruptcy, huge debt whether public or private, deep problems with repayment or a combination of all of the above, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=793&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>transformational shifts III</title>
		<link>http://bethesdafrog.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/transformational-shifts-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oops, and here i thought i was original with my previous post on transformational shifts, read it here&#8230; until i read this post.
oh well!!!



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		<title>transformational shifts part II</title>
		<link>http://bethesdafrog.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/transformational-shifts-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i think my first post on transformational shifts was too theoretical &#8211; read it here.  this lead me to further thinking about what it means to transform and be successful in so doing.  
a transformational shift requires new thinking.  new thinking requires discarding traditional thinking.  traditional thinking is based on traditional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=763&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>transformational shifts</title>
		<link>http://bethesdafrog.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/transformational-shifts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i ran for the first time ever with my oldest daughter this morning. we ran for 30 minutes, a nice jog, nicer for her, not that nice for me.  she basically kicked my ass.  i was sucking wind, from beginning to end, she sauntered about, talking to me, sometimes walking &#8211; which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=747&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>how i use social media and networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[facebook =&#62;  connecting with old friends, social affirmation, distributed communications among connections.
friendfeed =&#62;  discovery, browsing, leveraging others&#8217; interests, following multiple conversations across multiple subject matters, whether for business or personal use. making sense of chaos with a method and some tools
twitter =&#62; instantaneous connections, conversations, discoveries pin-pointed subject matters, the here and now. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethesdafrog.wordpress.com&blog=5464721&post=687&subd=bethesdafrog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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