EP 743 Finding an Audience For Your Product or Service Requires New Skills in 2024

EP 743 Finding an Audience For Your Product or Service Requires New Skills in 2024

It seems as if everyone is screaming out for attention in this era given the ease with which people can find audiences for their meanderings, political views, loves and pet peeves.  Just jump on line and wail away, with photos, videos and all manner of content.  Given this new reality, and everyone living in their …

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EP 740 Remember: Animals Can’t Turn on Their Air Conditioners

EP 740 Remember: Animals Can’t Turn on Their Air Conditioners

Just because humans stride atop the animal kingdom doesn’t mean that what affects us doesn’t affect other species on this earth  or that the impact on them by things like climate breakdown doesn’t turn around and affect our lives.  Naturalist Adam Welz tries and succeeds in driving this point home in his book, “The End …

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EP 739 Weight Loss Drugs Are All the Rage

EP 739 Weight Loss Drugs Are All the Rage

When a gorgeous Poli theater was restored in my hometown about a decade ago, one of the changes that had to occur was making the seats larger, because since the early 20th century Americans have gotten heftier.  Along with this collective weight gain, thanks to processed foods and more sedentary work lives, has come an …

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EP 738 America’s Nuclear Sub Fleet: Our ‘Silent’ Military Advantage

EP 738 America’s Nuclear Sub Fleet: Our ‘Silent’ Military Advantage

As a Connecticut resident, it’s hard not to be aware of the storied history of Hiram Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy” and the development and commissioning of the first nuclear submarine in in 1952 at the Groton, Connecticut. Now with a fleet of over 220 boats, or ships as they came to be …

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EP 737 The Government was the Architect of Housing Segregation in America: Now What?

EP 737 The Government was the Architect of Housing Segregation in America: Now What?

Richard Rothstein did America a great public service back in 2017.  In his groundbreaking book, “The Color of Law” he laid out chapter and verse the complicity of American government, at all levels, in the discriminatory practices that have led us to a condition of housing segregation in America.  That segregation is apparent in our …

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EP 736 Will There Be Water For All in the Future?

EP 736 Will There Be Water For All in the Future?

The current approach to water management is failing to meet the demands of the growing human population and the severe challenges brought on by climate change.  Our guest, David Sedlak, director of the Berkeley Water Center and author of “Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate” argues that there are solutions to address …

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EP 735 Aging Population at Greatest Risk From Climate Change

EP 735 Aging Population at Greatest Risk From Climate Change

When Hurricane Ian devastated Florida in 2022, two-thirds of the people who died were older adults.  Similarly, the greatest number of fatalities during Hurricane Katrina, the California Camp Fire and the winter power outages in Texas were among the same population.  And when you stop to think about it, it makes sense.  Many older Americans …

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EP 734 Expert Leaders Outperform the Growing Legion of Generalists

EP 734 Expert Leaders Outperform the Growing Legion of Generalists

Our guest today has a basic rule, based on research, about leaders of businesses and organizations.  They should, first and foremost, be experts in the activity they lead and then acquire and assume the leadership skills required to run the operation.  In too many cases, as has been the trajectory since the 1980’s, more and …

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