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Category Archives: Business Health
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
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Deregulation Causes Economic Collapse
Marketplaces are to the flow of commerce what highways and intersections are to the flow of traffic. We negotiate with one another in marketplaces to transfer the goods and services of modern life from suppliers to buyers. We negotiate with … Continue reading
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How we abuse entitlements and mismanage intrinsic conflicts to cripple our nation. Part 2
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” (Walt Kelly in Pogo) Managing Intrinsic conflicts Where two or more people are involved in a system, or in a system and its operating environment, there are intrinsic conflicts because individuals … Continue reading
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How to get the most out of critics
Arnold Jorgensen is the finest human being, engineer and engineering manager I’ve ever worked with. I worked for him for over 4 years shortly after graduating from MIT, and decades later he chose to work in my company until he retired. … Continue reading
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Bulldog of the Month
In the heyday of Pro-Log Corporation, about 5 years after its founding, I picked up a lapel pin at a trade show which displayed a picture of a bulldog and a caption “We need more bulldogs and less bullshit.” My … Continue reading
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The World That Trade Created: society, culture and the world economy 1400 to the present (Book Review)
The title is the least interesting thing about this book by Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, professors of History at UC Irvine and two people who know how to tell fascinating stories. It is a wonderful collection of historical vignettes … Continue reading
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