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Hacking Behavioral Economics - Ignorance, Uncertainty and Confusion
You don’t need a PhD to engage economics any more than you need to be a botanist to shop for fruit. Anyone who knows people can (and...
Paul Knowlton
Dec 10, 20214 min read


Relentless – Vision, Rules, and Reality
“For a while he trampled with impunity on laws human and divine; but, as he was obsessed with the delusion that two and two make five, he...
Paul Knowlton
Dec 3, 20214 min read


You Know, He's Right.
In 1951, twenty-one-year-old Princeton economics student John Bogle wrote a thesis on something he had never heard of before—the...
Paul Knowlton
Nov 26, 20214 min read


The Art of Power
What’s missing from our workplace wellness and well-being efforts? What’s the elephant in the room we’re typically too hesitant to...
Paul Knowlton
Nov 19, 20214 min read


The Spiritually Informed Leader
Our workplace experience is that we know something is wrong and something is missing. Wouldn’t it be great to get the right answer to the...
Paul Knowlton
Nov 12, 20214 min read


A Billionaire on Antisocial Capitalism and Providing Value to Others
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner for decades, doesn’t mince words. Speaking to a group of foundation money managers in...
Aaron Hedges
Nov 5, 20213 min read


Capitalism and Racial Reconciliation
We recognize that our use of the phrase ‘plantation system economics’ to underscore the universality of exploitation evokes America’s...
Paul Knowlton
Oct 29, 20213 min read


Better Capitalism in Action: Not a Fairy Tale
Once upon a time a man named John Sr. had two successful businesses. Each business had dozens of employees. John Sr. managed and grew the...
Paul Knowlton
Oct 22, 20215 min read


Moving from Ethical Fading/Failures
The problem of ethical fading/failures is easy to understand and illustrate. Here ya go: Photo Credit: Paul Knowlton The...
Paul Knowlton
Oct 15, 20213 min read


Too Big to be Responsible?
As a child I was regularly riveted and horrified by the old 1931 black and white movie Frankenstein, where the actor William Henry Pratt...
Paul Knowlton
Oct 8, 20214 min read


Better Taxes, Part 3: Reviewing Last Month's Democratic Party Proposal through Partnership Economics
In May we posted appreciative remarks on social media for the G7 agreement to establish a global minimum tax for corporations. Early last...
Aaron Hedges
Oct 1, 20214 min read


Disruptive Thinking | Elegant Solutions
What do you visualize when you hear the word ‘innovation’? We often think forward to some cool new thing that we can imagine but isn’t...
Paul Knowlton
Sep 23, 20214 min read


Re-thinking Milton Friedman, Part 2: Honoring Our GIANTS
We indeed stand on the shoulders of giants, I thought as I read a message from Jeff Mowatt. Jeff, located in Gloucester, England, is the...
Paul Knowlton
Sep 17, 20212 min read


It's Crazy ... Right!
Partnership Economics is a uniquely distinguishable approach to reshaping and creating a better form of capitalism. In part this is true...
Paul Knowlton
Sep 10, 20214 min read


Better Taxes, Part 2: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
We don’t expect corporate entities to govern themselves and broader economics in the best interests of the overall public without any...
Aaron Hedges
Sep 3, 20214 min read


You're Killin' Me Smalls - Part II
In Part I, I shared a challenge I faced early in my career as a new quality control (QC) supervisor. I was increasingly exasperated with...
Paul Knowlton
Aug 27, 20214 min read


You’re Killin’ Me, Smalls – Part 1
Just a week into my additional responsibilities as the quality control (QC) supervisor of the manufacturing plant where I was the process...
Paul Knowlton
Aug 20, 20213 min read


Re-thinking Milton Friedman, Part 1: Corporate Rights and Responsibilities
Some articles we recently shared on social media about Milton Friedman's views and influence generated, shall we say, energetic...
Aaron Hedges
Aug 13, 20212 min read


Dad is Fat, and Payday Lenders are Thieves
On a recent family road trip (yes, “trip,” not vacation) from Knoxville, TN, to the Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota, my wife and I...
Aaron Hedges
Aug 6, 20214 min read


Kill Your Pain Points
Photo Credit Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash.com About your pain points when dealing with customers and other people. Wouldn’t it be a...
Paul Knowlton
Jul 30, 20213 min read
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