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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Wall Street Executives: unprofitable bureaucrats
Business mythology tells us that leaders of large organizations are particularly talented managers, carefully selected by experts from a pool of exceptional people, and must know things the rest of us don’t just to be able to manage behemoth corporations. … Continue reading
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Corporations and corporate executives thrive on lavish welfare
Most of us hold an interesting but fallacious cultural myth about large businesses: management‘s job is solely to maximize the return on investment to the stockholders, as if stockholders are the only ones responsible for the existence and health of … Continue reading
Posted in Business Health, Politics
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