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Lightweight Oil executives produce worthless disaster plans
This week the executives of the other major oil companies (besides BP) presented their oil spill contingency plans to Congress. Several things were immediately evident: the plans were all grossly inadequate and carelessly done, they were all developed by the … Continue reading
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Reply to John Napier’s open letter to President Obama defending BP’s Tony Hayward
John Napier Chairman of RSA Group London, England Dear John: Please forgive this open letter, but your letter to President Obama comes across as somewhat prejudicial and personal. Actually, the personal part may be appropriate but the prejudicial part is … Continue reading
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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
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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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