Category Archives: Spiritual Capital

One of the five forms of wealth, or assets, that reside at the level of the organization, the team, and the individual.

Goldman Sachs and the Need for Hangings in the Village Square

The child like and pseudo religious belief that the free market will, by itself, right all wrongs in time, a belief adhered to by Alan Greenspan and other groupies of Ayn Rand, is at the heart of our financial crisis and the crisis of capitalism. This Greek tragedy was played out at Enron, Lehman Brothers, and now Goldman Sachs and BP. The question is whether corporate executives are capable of adhering to principled behavior in the absence of punishment of significant severity to balance out the significance of potential rewards for unprincipled behavior. Continue reading

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Power and Influence 2006

Both governments and companies suffer under illusions of power… the intoxication of the material world and the dismissal of the power within the heart and mind. Continue reading

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A National Strategy for Competitiveness

I want to be the moderator at the next Presidential candidate debates. There are a couple questions I would like to ask about their plans for creating national wealth. Continue reading

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Does Spiritual Capital Exist?

Spiritual capital is not the same as membership in religion, or participation in religion, although that may be a stimulus to building spiritual capital. Continue reading

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Capitalism Lives, but…

Capitalism is a live and well, but now it is time for an internal redefinition of capitalism, the capital that matters in the new competive world economy. Continue reading

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Back from the Dead!

I’m finished writing!!!! Continue reading

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