True Yield Comes in Human Terms An Encore Performance Originally Published on January 27, 2015 Kevin J. Palmer Economic Justice Activist Being on LinkedIn is new to me and I’m a bit clumsy, like leaving my “notify your network” button on while I built my profile, but I’m glad to have stumbled in here. In […]
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The influence of language alone can hardly explain the shift from a participatory to a non-participatory world. If human discourse is experienced by indigenous, oral peoples to be participant with the speech of birds, of wolves, and even of the wind, how could it ever have become severed from the vaster life? How could we […]
“You may have heard me tell the strikers to stand down. I was interrupted but those words were what the rich and powerful wanted me to stay to you. But the truth is something else entirely. It may sound strange to hear a man of God say this but the truth is that America is […]
Teachings of Buddhism is that unhappiness is caused by desire and avoidance. Desire for things we like and avoidance of the things we don’t like. Suffering is a lack of acceptance of how things are, so we run away from things we don’t like, and we chase the things we like. This is the wheel […]
A polluted and deteriorating planet is easily blamed on societal impacts of digitalization, a virtual generation, or a global breakdown of “decent society”. Man’s ego, makes it hard to simply admit that humans are still way too immature. Emotional Development somehow never figures into the destruction equation. That’s a shame, because to fix a worst-case […]
Submitted by SMA Institute analyst, Pam Chambers Difference between a manager and a leader thermometer test. A Thermometer measures and reports the environment. Managers are thermometers. Thermostats cause change and influence the environment. Leaders are thermostats. -Thermometers can only measure what’s happening. -Thermostats cause and control what’s happening. People will grow to […]
Continued. Outtake from recent book interview. On Judgment, Mediocrity, Complacency, Animals, Dogma Answer: I don’t judge others I analyze society, people & markets for a living and it must result in tangible cognitions of humanity. It has also aided me in helping others with needed change. It’s mostly thanks to my up brining. […]
Question during a recent interview: I am curious if you think the world is unpredictable and scary right now. Answer from author Kevin Palmer: “I assume you are probing me intellectually because if that is really a pragmatic question, you can answer better than anyone based on your fear of the world this past […]
When a country controls another politically and/or economically against the will of the majority that is a crime against humanity. The British established colonies in North America and people in the thirteen colonies revolted because it was wrong. “It takes a revolution to make a solution” -Bob Marley There are at least four types […]