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Conflicts in your office? Here are six leadership keys to resolution

By Richard Tyson Recent statistics suggest that as many as seven out of 10 employees are disengaged at work. One contributing factor is the disruption caused by interpersonal conflicts between employees. Clearly, daily on-the-job interactions between people provide fertile…

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Should infrastructure cost be borne by state, local or federal government?

By Veronique de Rugy With the Trump administration’s proposal to add $200 billion of federal funding for transportation projects over the next decade, there’s a renewed debate about whether we should raise the federal gas tax. One side makes the argument that a…

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Like the rest of the world, America is not immune from democratic decay

By Fareed Zakaria A few weeks ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit published the 10th edition of its Democracy Index, a comprehensive ranking of nations that looks at 60 measures in five categories, ranging from electoral process to civil liberties. For the second consecutive…

Save us from bureaucratic gremlins with a 'rule-in, rule-out' law for everyone

By Robert Pembroke The other day I went down to the state of Utah Driver License Division at the fairgrounds to renew my driver’s license and promptly proceeded to flunk the eye exam. The last time I renewed my driver’s license, I cannot remember having had my peripheral vision…

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Mar 4

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Strategic changes for closing more sales

By John Graham For most of us, what we learn first sticks with us for a long time — often throughout our lives. These things include nursery rhymes along with what we consider to be right and wrong. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. It happens to salespeople, too.…

What the #MeToo movement means for your business

By Jessica Johnston If you have been paying attention at all to the news lately, then you have heard about the #MeToo movement. For those who haven’t — or are unsure what it meant when all of Hollywood decided to wear black to the Golden Globes — the #MeToo movement started as a…

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Feb 25

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EB visa program: The U.S. should welcome more investor immigrants

By Veronique de Rugy There’s a deep political divide over how to handle immigration, and clashes over the issue have contributed to two government shutdowns — albeit one lasting mere hours — thus far this year. Battles relating to illegal immigration, including the question of…

Optimism circling the globe - with the exception of the Middle East

By Fareed Zakaria There’s a lot to be optimistic about today. In almost every part of the world, economies are growing and war, poverty and disease are receding. But then there is the Middle East. Syria remains a collapsed country; more than 5 million of its people have already…

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Feb 25

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A solution for Trumpism: Just take away his bully pulpit

By Robert Pembroke Is Donald Trump a good president or a bad president? I have no idea how history will treat Trump. During the Truman presidency, I remember that people were saying that he was a bad president. History proved those people to be wrong and Truman turned out to be…

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Feb 25

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Time to pitch those old, hackneyed sales pitches

By John Graham Sales pitches are shortcuts that save time and don’t require thinking. They’re the stock-in-trade of salespeople, rolling off the tongue easily and unconsciously. They once worked well with customers, but not so much today. Here are some of them: “How can I help…

Not too late to start 2018 with a business checkup

By Daniel Nordberg Making predictions is never easy, especially for small-business owners and managers. Unlike their larger counterparts, small firms rarely have the resources to monitor and take corrective action for every new trend and issue. Even entrepreneurs who’ve…

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Feb 18

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Note to elected officials: Debt and deficits aren’t good; they’re expensive

By Veronique de Rugy We are not in a full-scale war. We are not in a recession or fighting a high unemployment rate. But the federal government is spending as if we were a teenager with a parent’s credit card. Trillion-dollar deficits are coming back soon, so this is the perfect…

S. Korea most successful country in the world? We helped them get there

By Fareed Zakaria As the world’s attention turns briefly away from Donald Trump and toward the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, it’s worth focusing not just on the sports, but on this year’s host country. South Korea is, in some senses, the most successful nation in the world and…

Finally, a very small light at the end of the healthcare tunnel

By Robert Pembroke “The ballooning cost of healthcare acts as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,” said Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett, recently. Along with Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase, the three have vowed to cut the cost of providing…

A protectionist NAFTA withdrawal would undermine tax reform gains

By Veronique de Rugy Last year’s massive tax code overhaul lowered corporate income tax rates to an internationally competitive level for the first time in decades. U.S.-based businesses can now compete against their foreign counterparts without starting from an immediate…

Intentional or not, Trump drew three red lines during State of the Union

By Fareed Zakaria President Trump’s State of the Union speech mostly ignored the world outside of America. He made a few tough statements on things like the Iran deal and Guantanamo and described (accurately) the evil nature of the North Korean regime, but he said very little…

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Feb 11

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Employers say that only 20 percent of new hires need bachelor’s degree

By Robert Pembroke A new report by the Labor Department detailing education requirements for American workers in 2017 has made my day. For years and years, higher education has been telling us that we need a bachelor’s degree in order to get a well-paying job, but the labor…

Nine prescriptions for the deadly disease of disengagement

By Richard Tyson The unused movie tickets lay on the dining room table alongside a half-eaten TV dinner. It was 9:15 p.m. on a Friday evening when Jane walked through the front door. “I’m sorry,” she said. “But I think I’ve completed the project.” Her husband looked skeptical,…

SpaceX and Uncle Sam shrug off billion-dollar uninsured satellite loss

By Veronique de Rugy Did you know that the government doesn’t insure the cargo it sends into space? That means that when a satellite carrying government cargo explodes during or after launch, taxpayers are left footing the entire bill. This issue has become topical with the…

Despite everything, we have to be encouraged by Trump the Republican

By Fareed Zakaria Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, I have said that when he did something right, I would say so. That’s gotten me into trouble with some readers, but I’m going to do it again. Recently, at the World Economic Forum, Trump gave a good speech that was…

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Feb 4

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It’s time to do something about income inequality and depression

By Robert Pembroke Many years ago, while going through my mail, I found a letter from the Internal Revenue Service telling me that our company had won their annual lottery. For the first time ever, our shop was going to be audited by the feds. We had been audited many times by…

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Feb 4

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Real federalists need to step up and leave marijuana decision to the states

By Veronique de Rugy You would think that the Justice Department has better things to do than to restart a federal war on marijuana or that it would want to stay away from interfering with the will of the people in the 29 states — plus the District of Columbia — that allow at…

Democrats don't realize they differ from working class on immigration

By Fareed Zakaria Today, Emmanuel Macron is the most admired world leader among liberals, centrists and cosmopolitans around the globe. He has managed to win the French presidency, enact reforms and stay relatively popular — all while speaking positively about the free market,…

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Jan 28

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New UofU president Watkins has a chance to help save the American Dream

By Robert Pembroke The American Dream is in trouble. According to a study (2015) made by Gallup, for the first time in decades, more businesses are dying than are being born. The trend lines — businesses being born and businesses dying — crossed in 2008. “Until 2008, startups…

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