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...year-old store at Whole Foods' home base in Austin?an 80,000-sq.-ft. flagship and the chief laboratory for new ideas???is designated a "happy" store. All 600 employees attend monthly meetings, and everyone has a say. "We talk a lot about choosing our attitudes and what we're going to bring to the table that day," says store team leader Seth Stutzman...
...genius. Ideas don't magically appear in a genius' head from nowhere. They always build on what came before. And collaboration is key. Look at what others in your field are doing. Brainstorm with people in different fields. Research and anecdotal evidence suggest that distant analogies lead to new ideas???like when a heart surgeon bounces things off an architect or a graphic designer...
...many voters, Government now appears to be not an ally but an enemy whose tax-and-spend policies foster wilder and wilder roller-coaster rides of inflation and recession. With the nation turning against Big Government, the Democrats have run out of acceptable new ideas???their stock in trade for so long ?because the ideas have always involved creation of an ever larger bureaucracy. Ironically, it is Ronald Reagan, with his nostalgic vision of a day when the individual was great and the Government small, who now appears as the innovator, proposing risky but exciting new courses?...
...methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes and especially grown crops, could stretch declining natural gas supplies and help the U.S. bridge the 50-year period before it can achieve what he thinks possible: a completely solar-powered society). But the Department of Energy does not dismiss such ideas???and there may be wisdom here. What the woodburners and the backyard inventors are expressing is more than flabby "life-style" preening; it is an exceedingly determined kind of self-reliance: "I am going to stay warm, damn the Arabs, and damn the oil companies, and damn the damned Government...
...Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long (see following story), who has emerged as a pivotal figure in the battle. But it was only a temporary defeat. Immediately after approving the use tax, the Senate voted to give Long almost complete freedom to push some of his pet energy ideas???most notably huge tax benefits to the oil and gas industries to encourage production?in the House-Senate conference committee that is trying to reconcile differences between the two chambers...