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DECISION MAKERS PICK A SIDE

August 25, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Decision makers have one job: make the right decision. Then another and another and another all day long. It’s not for everybody, but everybody does it. Making no decision is a decision? Yes, but someone else will decide for you if it’s important enough.

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POWER RULES WRITTEN TO FOLLOW

June 2, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Power rules come in a variety of formats including written, verbal, and example. The written ones seem to carry the most importance since we’ll never know the verbal or actions of history. Unless it’s written down. Once direct orders are written down, the next bit of documentation is the recollection of events, the after-action report […]

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FOR OLDER PEOPLE: WHAT’S IT LIKE?

March 4, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Who doesn’t like a question directed to ‘older people?’ This was the question from twitter: I wonder what it’s like for the older people now, who were born in the previous millennium. How can people born in 1999 be old? Easy.

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