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...
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TALKING MONEY, RELIGION, & POLITICS
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Paul Knowlton
- Oct 29, 2021
- 3 min
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 22, 2021
- 5 min
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 8, 2021
- 4 min
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
- Aug 27, 2021
- 4 min
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 20, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
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 16, 2021
- 3 min
Do Entrepreneurs Lie?
Who? Me?! The newly minted July-August 2021 edition of Harvard Business Review (HBR) includes an insightful ethics article titled...
Paul Knowlton
- Jul 9, 2021
- 4 min
The Good Capitalist: Part II – A Modern Update
[This blog continues the story begun in the previous post. I know, the “Part II” kinda makes that obvious, but, you know, thought I’d...
Paul Knowlton
- Jul 2, 2021
- 5 min
The Good Capitalist: Part I – An Ancient Story
[For this Part I blog and the next Part II blog, I share an edited version of a sermon I recently preached titled “The Good Capitalist”...
Paul Knowlton
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
Enough
We humans, like all species, have needs. Our tip-of-the-tongue list of needs usually begins with food, clothing, shelter, safety,...
Paul Knowlton
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Growing Pains?
Growth can be a joyful experience. My joyful growth memories include my first motorcycle, earning job promotions, graduating from degree...
Paul Knowlton
- May 14, 2021
- 4 min
Entitled Borrowing + Entrapment Lending
On my back patio with a group of vaccinated but still socially distanced friends, we covered the usual gamut of complaints and concerns...
Paul Knowlton
- Mar 19, 2021
- 4 min
Order-Disorder-Reorder
A fantasy many of us grew up hearing is that we can design, control, and live the perfect lives we imagine, or others imagined for us....
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