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  • Bond, James Bond…Lessons from 007’s Archenemies

    Bond, James Bond…Lessons from 007’s Archenemies

    One of the cable TV channels ran a James Bond marathon last weekend. After watching dribs and drabs of a few of them, I decided they highlight two worthwhile...
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  • Sports Blog: My New Catcher’s Glove

    Sports Blog: My New Catcher’s Glove

    Early this spring, I bought a new catcher’s glove made by a company headquartered in New Jersey called Akadema. Akadema didn’t exist when I was a boy. Back then,...
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  • One Simple Sentence

    One Simple Sentence

    My pal No Sweat Kosinski sent a brief email to me last week. Here’s what he said: Mikey, I was digging around your website and read a blog you...
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  • My Totem

    My Totem

    I read a column last month that said we should all have a totem, and we should carry that totem with us for a year and then give it...
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  • The Northwestern Steelworkers

    The Northwestern Steelworkers

    Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the members of the Northwestern University football team are university employees and as such, they may unionize and are...
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  • On Leaning In and Being Bossy

    On Leaning In and Being Bossy

    The only shoes I’ve ever walked in are my own. And though I don’t know what it’s like to be a woman in a leadership position, I have coached...
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  • The Office Jerk

    The Office Jerk

    One of this year’s pleasant surprises has been renewing my friendship with my high school buddy Aloysius “No Sweat” Kosinski after our chance meeting at Chicago O’Hare in January....
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  • Why Not Name a Building for Me?

    Why Not Name a Building for Me?

    Café Hayek is the one blog that I read every day. It’s written by Don Boudreaux and Russ Roberts, two professors of economics at George Mason University. In late...
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