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I have read Bread and Butter: What a Bunch of Bakers Taught Me About Business and Happiness three times. It has fundamentally changed how I look at work and life. A few years ago, when I was living in Chicago, I visited the Great Harvest Bread store in Evanston, IL. I loved their bread. I [...]

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Several years ago I was part of a group of first-year MBA students who did a week-long service project in Southwest Montana. If you have never been to Montana, you should definitely visit it once in your life time. When you get there, you’ll understand why it’s called big sky country. It’s beautiful, wide open, [...]

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I have four weeks of vacation days each year. I use all of my vacation days every year. But, I feel I haven’t taken any vacation for the past three years. Okay, I might be exaggerating a little bit. But, honestly, I feel that I haven’t taken a vacation for a very long time. The [...]

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I haven’t made any post for a few days because I was completely “off the grid”. We spent a few days in a small resort near Port Townsend in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. No Internet connections, no emails, no computer access, and no web surfing. We swam, played tennis, and spend some quiet time [...]

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My wife and I have been watching Jon & Kate Plus 8 for the past year. We have two little ones, so we  really identify with the daily struggles Jon & Kate have been going through. In case you never watched Jon & Kate Plus 8, it’s a realty TV show about the Gosselin family, [...]

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I enjoyed reading New York Times best-seller The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. But, I feel that Thomas Friedman painted an overly rosy and simplistic picture of globalization. Let me tell you a true story. I have a friend who works for one of the largest IT outsourcing companies [...]

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Please take a look at the following table. What do these men share in common? Name Birthday Age as of 4/18/2009 David Murdock 4/10/1923 86 Sheldon Adelson 8/4/1933 75 Warren Buffet 8/30/1930 78 Charlie Munger 1/1/1924 85 Rupert Murdoch 3/11/1931 78   All of them are more than 75 years old billionaire still working They [...]

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When A.B. Farquhar, a Pennsylvania businessman, mentioned to Carnegie that he was always sure to be in his office by “seven in the morning”, Carnegie remarked laughingly: “You must be a lazy man if it takes you ten hours to do a day’s work.” “’What I do,’ he said, ‘is to get good men, and [...]

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You might wonder why I haven’t made any post in a few days  — that’s because I took a two-day family vacation to the beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. I would like to share a few things with you about our trip. In case you haven’t heard about 4HWW — it stands for 4-Hour Work Week [...]

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"Do you know Investment Banking is really cut-throat, and you won’t have a life for a long time?" "I know, I know. My plan is to work really hard for 10 years, make a lot of money, and then retire. I’ll work really hard." I had this conversation with several of my classmates when I [...]

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