Friends, we are running through a playbook of national decline laid out by thinkers ranging from Gibbon to Montesquieu (use of mercenaries to fight our wars and clean our toilets, imperial overreach, an intellectually apathetic citizenry, onerous taxes, tax evasion, failure to protect borders, and failure to inculcate newcomers in the time-honored values of the nation).
But when it comes to avoiding loops of doom, deciding whether to delegate or to sweat the details, whether to synergize or specialize, whether to manage by walking around and solving problems or manage by ignoring problems and pursuing opportunities, whether to run tight ships or to inculcate chaotic innovation among armies of shorts-wearing, Ping-Pong playing, cubicle-less knowledge workers, humanity is still figuring this out at least, I am.
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It is a lot easier to inculcate kindness and acceptable social behavior into an 8-year-old than an 18-year-old, and the earlier our schools implement social emotional skills building and bullying prevention, the better.
The benevolence of the rich even funds people like you, who have spent their careers sheltered from any effort at profit-seeking as you instead regulate, inculcate the next generation with your views, and defend bankrupts.
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Instead of just focusing on big name British companies to sign big ticket deals, Mr Cameron has brought with him 30-odd small- and medium-sized firms in the hope that they can inculcate a new generation of trade and entrepreneurial links with India.
The underlying idea is to use golf as a character-building vehicle that will encourage kids to make healthy choices and to inculcate values like honesty and dedication.
That is why, in the seven years since Oslo, he has used every means at his disposal, from the Palestinian-controlled media to newly printed textbooks, to speeches by his own wife, to inculcate hatred of the Jews and their state.
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Rather than viewing this as necessitating the long-term continuation of incentives, however, we are researching how to implement incentives in ways that inculcate persistent habits.
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