Archive for Mini-Factories

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 2: Major Challenges

by: Oliver DeMille March 10, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 2 of a 5-part article.
Read Part 1 Here
Consider the major problems we are facing.
Most are the natural results of too much reliance on institutional size and power and not enough initiative, innovation, and leadership from “little guys.”
Of course, the few who are entrepreneurs do an amazing [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 1: Failed Solutions

by: Oliver DeMille March 9, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 1 of a 5-part article.
When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation.
Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, while Hamilton preferred [...]

21st Century Georgics: An Introduction

by: Hyrum Lefler March 8, 2010

A key factor in maintaining freedom is sustainable economic forms.
Are you maintaining freedom through the financial principles and practices you are using? Have American families adopted the economic forms necessary for the preservation of a free people?
The average American household pays over 34.5% of every dollar earned to interest payments. Forget about [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 4

by: Oliver DeMille March 5, 2010

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This is part 4 of a 4-part article.
Read Part 1 Here
Read Part 2 Here
Read Part 3 Here
The Growing Popularity of Producer Education
Consider what leading thinkers on the needs of American education and business are saying.
In Revolutionary Wealth, renowned futurist Alvin Toffler says that schools must deemphasize outdated [...]

Sunday Poem: Throw Yourself Like Seed by Miguel de Unamuno

by: Stephen Palmer February 7, 2010

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Throw Yourself Like a Seed
Miguel de Unamuno
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit
sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
that brushes your heel as it turns going by,
the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now you are only giving food to that [...]

3 Magic Seeds: How to Teach Your Children the Entrepreneurial Spirit

by: Stephen Palmer January 28, 2010

Last year the Action Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence published a great article entitled “3 Magic Seeds: Discovering the Entrepreneurial Spirit” (link shared with permission from Jeff Sandefer).
It provides an excellent three-part formula for teaching youth the entrepreneurial spirit. Anyone who understands the power of mini-factories and believes in generational thinking should read the article and [...]

Linchpins & Mini-Factories: Escaping Factory Education & Business

by: Stephen Palmer January 26, 2010

Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, releases today.
I haven’t read it yet, but judging from Seth’s other books I’m sure it will be an indispensable (pun intended) book in the freeman’s 21st Century library.
It leaped to the top of my list when I watched the following interview with Seth by David Meerman Scott.
It’s [...]

Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself by Seth Godin

by: Stephen Palmer January 14, 2010

ChangeThis just published a new manifesto by Seth Godin entitled “Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself.”
Take time to read it now. Once again, Seth has hit the nail on the head.
He echoes the same themes we’ve been proclaiming: the mini-factory model transforming industrial, bureaucratic, and top-down business, government and society; Hub Mentality™ giving businesses and [...]

The Four Lost American Ideals Released

by: Stephen Palmer January 13, 2010

We’re thrilled to announce the release of The Four Lost American Ideals, a recorded lecture by Oliver DeMille.
The recording can be purchased as an audio cd for $11.99, or as an MP3 download for just $2.99.
Click here to explore the website and learn what the four lost ideals are, click here to score 7 bonus [...]

Beyond Liberals & Conservatives, Part 3: The New Majority

by: Oliver DeMille January 11, 2010

This is part 3 of a 3-part article.
Read Part 1 Here
Read Part 2 Here
But the biggest shift of all may be that postmodernists and independents have a new faith: “We must save ourselves, at least as far as this world is concerned.”
On one extreme, this means becoming truly self-made, like an Ayn Rand hero, building [...]