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	<title>Dismounting  Our  Tiger &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount</description>
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		<title>Lightweight Oil executives produce worthless disaster plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.dismountingourtiger.com/business-health/oil-executives-produce-vacuous-disaster-response-plans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reply to John Napier’s open letter to President Obama defending BP&#8217;s Tony Hayward</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.dismountingourtiger.com/business-health/reply-to-john-napier%e2%80%99s-open-letter-to-president-obama-defending-bps-tony-hayward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Executives: unprofitable bureaucrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#8230; <a href="http://www.dismountingourtiger.com/business-health/wall-street-executives-mediocre-bureaucrats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Corporations and corporate executives thrive on lavish welfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 16:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.dismountingourtiger.com/business-health/corporations-and-corporate-executives-thrive-on-lavish-welfare-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deregulation Causes Economic Collapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.dismountingourtiger.com/business-health/deregulation-causes-economic-collapse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How we abuse entitlements and mismanage intrinsic conflicts to cripple our nation. Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.dismountingourtiger.com/business-health/how-we-abuse-entitlements-and-mismanage-intrinsic-conflicts-to-cripple-our-nation-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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