Daily Archives: 08/15/2008

(Community Matters) The diet of the winningest Olympic athlete ever

Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.

Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.

Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.

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(Community Matters) Matt Cooper rates Condi Rice

Is there a lesson here for business folks? I think it’s that the appearance of competence and executive authority can be misleading. rest here

(Community Matters) Funny and real

(Community Matters) From John Thornton’s Insomniactive

George Schultz: “If they are too big to fail, make them smaller”

(Community Matters) Sat for a long interview yesterday with Carol & Jack of Delta Associates to discuss an organization they’re helping with. Was enlightening to reflect back 12 – 15 years and to see two evolutionary stages of an organization while contemplating needs for a third. What allowed you to arrive where you are and what will it take to get to where you want to go? Heck, where even do you want to go?!? And, WHY? Is it furthering the original mission or has the mission changed, or does it need to change? What was and what is the vision? Are we talking about strategy, objectives or tactics? Realizing I get a mental picture of the vision in my head, like the jaws of a bulldog. Also realizing, I have to build that mental vision or risk being a flapper.

(Community Matters) Our good friend, Thinkwell CEO Carl Tyson sent me a note yesterday (for which I’m very grateful) about NetSquared.org. I hadn’t heard of this site. Their mission:

to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There’s a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as “Web 2.0”; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.

(Community Matters) If you haven’t read this WSJ article on Obama’s tax plan, you should. here

Written by Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee, economic policy director and senior economic adviser to Obama, respectively, they discuss tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 and a roll back of tax rates for those making more than $250,000 BUT at no higher capital gains or ordinary income rates than those of the 1990s. As well, there are tax cuts for small businesses.

Compare and contrast to extended tax cuts in McCain’s plans for the very wealthiest Americans and corporations, tax cuts which further enlarge the national deficit and do nothing to relieve the burden on middle income families.