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		<title>What Can We Learn from Ebenezer Scrooge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Giersch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rich old miser is such an easy target.  Great film and literature is full of them.  There&#8217;s Mr. Potter in It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life, and Silas Marner in George Elliot&#8217;s novel of the same name, and just about every Hollywood movie that contains a CEO characterizes him as a rich and greedy.   But the quintessential miser, of course, is Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens&#8217; A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatmindsdobusiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9577243&amp;post=94&amp;subd=greatmindsdobusiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mozart and the Need for Non-Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Giersch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something unique about Mozart&#8217;s music.  The very first time you hear it, it sounds as if you&#8217;ve heard it before.  It&#8217;s comfortable.  Other composers may have been more prolific (like Bach) or more dramatic (like Beethoven) but no composer is more likeable.  Take the opening notes of &#8220;A Little Night Music.&#8221;  The shape of that tune just feels so logical, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatmindsdobusiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9577243&amp;post=65&amp;subd=greatmindsdobusiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aristotle and the Anatomy of Boom and Bust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Giersch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been told that there was a time when the stock market moved according to very rational principals, things like P/E ratios, book values and the like.  If ever that were true, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be so today. This past decade in the market has been a bit of a freak-show of oddities:  we&#8217;ve seen bloated dot.com IPOs, desperate day traders, and that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatmindsdobusiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9577243&amp;post=30&amp;subd=greatmindsdobusiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shakespeare on the Dulling Power of Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Giersch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are actually several books available on the topic of Shakespeare and business. Not surprisingly, most of these are very general books about leadership, marketing and communications. After all, Shakespeare lived in Elizabethan England, in a modified monarchy long before industrialization, globalization or the information age.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatmindsdobusiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9577243&amp;post=16&amp;subd=greatmindsdobusiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Smith and the one thing people are always willing to pay for</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Giersch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other amazing thing that happened in 1776, besides all that American Revolution stuff, was that a theologian wrote a book that would define modern economics. Rather like reading the Bible, or listening to Mozart, The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, is an explication of First Principals.  As you read it, you keep saying to yourself, "Oh, so that's where that comes from . . ." or "I've heard that before."  The things that Smith lays out are so foundational, they are almost invisible.  

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		<title>Great Minds Do Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Giersch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in the &#8220;Great Minds Do Business&#8221; blog. The point of this blog is to discuss sound business practices as inspired by the world&#8217;s greatest thinkers. Your feedback is appreciated. If you are inspired in your business by the great minds of history, drop me a line and let me know. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatmindsdobusiness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9577243&amp;post=3&amp;subd=greatmindsdobusiness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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