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Pasture-Raised Leadership and More Than You Want to Know about Egg Farming*

Posted on January 19, 2026February 7, 2026 by John Lubans

A few years back, I made up a term for a kind of management system or style: cage free. It was a re-purposing of a term found on an egg carton. As you know nowadays there’s more than one way, including “gluten-free”, to market eggs. (There’s no gluten** in eggs.) And, claiming eggs are organic suggests something…

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The Bumptious Among Us & How They Get That Way

Posted on January 2, 2026February 7, 2026 by John Lubans

The word, bumptious, has found recent currency, mostly in political discourse, but the Trumpian allusion is not what I’ve in mind. Nor will this be a plea for others, always others, to be kinder and more considerate. Rather, I’ll explore the seeming lack of courtesy (rudeness) which is central to being bumptious. What promotes rudeness?…

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Not The DMV*

Posted on September 13, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

One of my most frequently read old posts, “The Un-DMV” deserves a prominent spot on my WordPress platform. And, in a time of “pulse checks” for government employees – with many identified flat-liners – it is good to celebrate when an agency understands its purpose and carries out its mission with urgency and exceptional customer…

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Patti Smith. Album: Radio Ethiopia. 1976

Aesop’s “ZEUS AND THE DONKEYS”*

Posted on August 14, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

The donkeys were tired of being burdened with burdens and labouring all the days of their lives, so they sent ambassadors to Zeus, asking him to release them from their toil. Zeus, wanting to show them that they had asked for something impossible, said that their suffering would come to an end on the day…

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Blog Update: A Pilgrim’s Progress

Posted on July 31, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

As the reader may know, I have moved my 15-year-old blog from the Nucleus platform (no longer supported) to the WordPress platform which, I am told hosts 40% of the world’s blogs. My progress has been akin to traversing a squelching bog at midnight. . It’s been trial and error (or sink or swim) as…

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