Archive for Entrepreneurship
By Oliver DeMille The following is an excerpt from Oliver’s recent book, The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom. If freedom is to reverse the onslaught of American and global aristocracy, it will likely do so through the greatest freedom trend of our time. This trend is revolutionizing institutions, organizations, relationships, society and [...]
By Stephen Palmer “We know more than we know we know.” -Michael Polanyi Feeling overwhelmed by cultural, political, and economic forces beyond your control? Dismayed that we’re rapidly losing freedom? Want to make a greater difference? If so, your power and answers lie in the right hemisphere of your brain, waiting to be activated. If [...]
By Oliver DeMille The American framers overcame domination by an elite upper class by establishing a new system where every person was treated equally before the law. This led to nearly two centuries of increasing freedoms for all social classes, both genders and all citizens—whatever their race, religion, health, etc. During the Industrial Age this [...]
By Orrin Woodward I searched for him half my life, named with an uncommon sound. I looked for him around the world, but this person refused to be found. Thankfully, I discovered him, the good news is, you can too. However, it won’t be easy, as he reveals himself to just a few. You can [...]
By Kevin Mogavero There are a few interesting factors we should study when we look at our free enterprise and capitalistic-natured economy. First, consider that free enterprise evokes and encourages competition. Second, consider that the capitalist system requires an entity to generate profit to survive. Two things that I think have made America the world [...]
By Stephen Palmer Why can’t the freedom movement seem to get any traction? Why have we lost battle after battle for at least the past century? It’s because we tend to make the good the enemy of the perfect, the pragmatic the enemy of the ideal. To be clear, it’s because the most passionate among [...]
By Kevin Mogavero My good friend Randy Watterson sent me this article, What’s Luck Got to do with it? by Jim Collins. In the article, Jim talks about the difference between a 1 or 2Xer (a person who meets or doubles the industry standard of success) and a 10Xer (a person who is able to [...]
By Shanon Brooks Read Part One Here Must an education be limited to completing a checklist of courses in order to receive a certificate of conformance to present as evidence to a prospective employer of having met a minimum standard of proficiency in practical, productive job skills? Is an education limited to passing through a [...]
Home Schools, the New Private Schools, and Other Non-Traditional Learning By Oliver DeMille The current national commentary on American education is split by a major paradox. On the one hand, nearly all the experts are convinced that our schools must find a way to effectively and consistently teach the values and skills of innovation and [...]
By Oliver DeMille The New Culture War During the Cold War, people came to equate the three ideas of democracy, capitalism and free enterprise. This made sense at some level, since the whole world seemed inescapably divided into authoritarian, totalitarian, socialist and communist nations on the one hand and democratic, capitalistic and free enterprise nations [...]